TY - BOOK ID - 134609538 TI - Pox, empire, shackles, and hides : the Townsend site, 1670-1715 PY - 2010 SN - 0817384839 9780817384838 9780817317164 0817317163 9780817356286 0817356282 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cherokee Indians KW - Households KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - History. KW - Antiquities. KW - Dwellings KW - Townsend (Tenn.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134609538 AB - The late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. Indeed, between the founding of the Charles Town colony along the south Atlantic coast in 1670 and the outbreak of the Yamasee War in 1715, disease, warfare, and massive population displacements dramatically altered the social, political, and economic landscape of the entire region. This volume examines issues of culture contact and social identity by exploring how this chaotic period played out in the daily lives of Cherokee households, especially those ER -