TY - BOOK ID - 77890775 TI - Societies in eclipse AU - Mainfort, Robert C AU - Cowan, C Wesley AU - Brose, David S PY - 2010 SN - 0817383395 9780817383398 9780817353520 PB - Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Land settlement patterns KW - Social archaeology KW - Woodland Indians KW - Patterns, Land settlement KW - Settlement patterns KW - Human geography KW - Land settlement KW - Archaeology KW - Eastern Woodland Indians KW - Indians of North America KW - First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners KW - History. KW - Social life and customs. KW - First contact with Europeans. KW - Antiquities. KW - Methodology KW - East (U.S.) KW - Eastern States (U.S.) KW - Eastern United States KW - United States, Eastern KW - First contact (Anthropology) KW - First contact with Europeans KW - First contact with other peoples. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890775 AB - While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography, and oral tradition to examine the cultural landscape preceding and immediately following the arrival of Europeans. The evidence suggests that native societies were in the process of significant cultural transformation prior to contact. ER -