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Notes And Queries On Spaniards And Indians In The Oconee Valley, Mark Williams Jun 2011

Notes And Queries On Spaniards And Indians In The Oconee Valley, Mark Williams

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

A summarization of what is known regarding Spanish-Indian contact in the Oconee Valley in Georgia, with some questions posed based what is known.


Sixteenth-Century Mechanisms Of Exchange, David J. Hally, Marvin T. Smith Jun 2011

Sixteenth-Century Mechanisms Of Exchange, David J. Hally, Marvin T. Smith

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

European artifacts found on Native American archaeological sites have long interested archaeologists. Such artifacts have often been used as temporal markers (Brain 1975, Smith 1987, Smith and Good 1982) or as ways to measure acculturation (Brown 1979a, 1979b, White 1975, Smith 1987), but scholars have paid little attention to the mechanisms which delivered such artifacts to the Native populace (but see Brain 1975, DePratter and Smith 1980, Waselkov 1989). Using historical records, archaeological remains, and, most importantly, the context of the archaeological finds, it should be possible to gain some understanding ofhow European materials were obtained by Native Americans and, …