Table of Contents:
  • Aboriginal population movements in the postcontact Southeast / Marvin T. Smith
  • The great Southeastern smallpox epidemic 1696-1700: the region's first major epidemic? / Paul Kelton
  • Spanish missions and the persistence of chiefly power / John E. Worth
  • Trouble coming Southward: emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 / Helen C. Rountree
  • The mother of necessity: Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the making of a new order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 / Steven C. Hahn
  • The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750: patterns of sociopolitical coalescence and dispersal / Penelope B. Drooker
  • The cultural landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at contact / R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr.
  • Reconstructing the coalescence of Cherokee communities in Southern Appalachia / Christopher B. Rodning
  • From prehistory through Protohistory to ethnohistory in and near the Northern lower Mississippi Valley / Marvin D. Jeter
  • Colonial period transformations in the Mississippi Valley: disintegration, alliance, confederation, playoff / Patricia Galloway
  • Social changes among the Caddo Indians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.