Indian and European Contact in Context

Between the 16th and 19th centuries as indigenous Native Americans, colonizing Europeans, and Africans came into sustained contact in North America, their cultures underwent a variety of complex transformations. While other scholarly books that examine ""cultural contact"" have traditionally viewed the issue through a single lens, this collection offers a strikingly different picture by collecting a variety of archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives to formulate an interdisciplinary investigation.

Dennis B. Blanton is director of the Center for Archaeological Research at the College of William and Mary and adjunct instructor of anthropology. Julia A. King is director of the Maryland Archaeology Conservation Laboratory at the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at St. Mary's College of Maryland.