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Informationen zum Autor Timothy K. Perttula is a consulting archaeologist living in Austin, Texas. Klappentext First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro-Americans.Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records. The work focuses on changes from A.D. 1520 to ca. A.D. 1800 and challenges many long-standing assumptions about the nature of these changes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Thomas R. HesterPreface to the Paperback EditionPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Contact and Theoretical Issues 1. Introduction2. European Contact with the Caddo Nation: An Overview3. Archaeology and the Contact Era: Theory and MethodologyPart 2. Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Issues 4. The Archaeological Record in the Caddoan Area, 1520-16855. The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Record in the Caddoan Area, 1685-18006. Special Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Caddoan Archaeological RecordPart 3. SummaryConclusions and Future ProspectsAppendixThe Chronological Sequence in the Titus Phase of Northeast TexasNotesReferencesIndex
