Title: Societies in Eclipse
Description: 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.
Subjects: Indians of north america, first contact with europeans, Indians of north america, east (u.s.), Land settlement, Social archaeology, Land settlement patterns, History, Woodland Indians, Social life and customs, First contact with Europeans, Antiquities