Download or read book The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era written by COBB. and published by . This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes the landscape histories of Native Americans in southeastern North America from the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century to the first decades of the American Republic. Relying on archaeological data and historical sources, the work outlines the ways in which Native populations accommodated and contested the growing encroachments of colonialism and colonial powers. Traditional landscape practices were greatly transformed by epidemic diseases, chronic warfare, and a widespread slave trade in Indian populations.