Stability and change in Guale Indian pottery, A.D. 1300-1702 [electronic resource] / Rebecca Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Rebecca, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guale pottery.

Guale Indians--Antiquities.

Guale Indians.

Guale Indians--Social conditions.

Sea Islands--Antiquities.

Sea Islands.

Amelia Island (Fla.)--Antiquities.

Amelia Island (Fla.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through a comprehensive study of changing pottery attributes, Saunders documents the clash of Spanish and Native American cultures in the 16th-century southeastern United States. By studying the ceramic traditions of the Guale Indians, Rebecca Saunders provides evidence of change in Native American lifeways from prehistory through European contact and the end of the Mission period. The Guale were among the first southeastern groups to come into contact with Spanish and French colonists, and they adapted various strategies in order to ensure their own social survival. T

Contents:

Pottery and culture change

Archaeological and ethnohistoric perspectives on the Guale Indians

The pottery of the Guale Indians, A.D. 1300-1702

Methods

The Meeting House Fields site

Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia

Mission Santa Catalina de Santa María, Amelia Island, Florida

Continuity and change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8428-6

0-585-37498-8

OCLC:

772845376