Ethnohistory and archaeology : approaches to postcontact change in the Americas / edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Samuel M. Wilson.

Includes bibl. references. - Contents: Historical dynamics in the contact era / S.M. Wlson, J.D. Rogers; Structure and history: combining archaeology and ethnohistory in the contact period Caribbean / S.M. Wilson; The persistance of an explanatory dilemma in contact period studies / R.D. Leonard; North America: encounters with villagers and chiefdoms. Stone tools, steel tools: contact period household technology at Helo' / D.B. Bamforth; The social and material implications of culture contact on the northern Plains / J.D. Rogers; Kee-Oh-Na-Wah'-Wah: the effects of European contact on the Caddoan Indians of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansa and Oklahoma / T.K. Perttula; Economic and adaptive change among the Lake Superior Chippewa of the 19th century / C.E. Cleland; Historic Creek Indian responses to European trade and the rise of political factions / G.A. Waselkov; Assessing the significance of European goods in 17th century Narragansett society / W.A. Turnbaugh; Mesoamerica: encounters with states. Socioeconomic change within native society in colonial Soconusco, New Spain / J. Gasco; The living pay for the dead: trade, exploitation and social change in early colonial Izalco, El Salvador / W.R. Fowler; Urban and rural dimensions of the contact period: central Mexico, 1521-1620 / T.H. Charlton, P. Fournier G.