
Modeling Entradas
Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America
Clay Mathers(Editor)
University Press of Florida
Published on 22. September 2020
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-68340-158-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Modeling Entradas, Clay Mathers brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages. These expeditions into the interior of the North American continent were among the first contacts between New- and Old-World communities, and the study of how they were organized and the routes they took-based on the artifacts they left behind-illuminates much about the sixteenth-century indigenous world and the colonizing efforts of Spain. Focusing on the entradas of conquistadors Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Tristan de Luna y Arellano, and Juan Pardo, contributors offer insights from recently discovered sites including encampments, battlefields, and shipwrecks. Using the latest interpretive perspectives, they turn the narrative of conquest from a simple story of domination to one of happenstance, circumstance, and interactions between competing social, political, and cultural worlds. These essays delve into the dynamic relationships between Native Americans and Europeans in a variety of contexts including exchange, disease, conflict, and material production.This volume offers valuable models for evaluating, synthesizing, and comparing early expeditions, showing how object-oriented and site-focused analyses connect to the anthropological dimensions of early contact, patterns of regional settlement, and broader historical trajectories such as globalization. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
52 black & white illustrations, 18 tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68340-158-2 (9781683401582)
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University of Florida Press
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Clay Mathers, a registered professional archaeologist based in Albuquerque, is the coeditor of Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast and Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown: Reshaping Archaeological Assessment and Significance.