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Many changes occurred in aboriginal chiefdoms in the interior Southeast as a result of depopulation caused by European contact. This study focuses on these changes, accepting the thesis of rapid depopulation presented by Ann Ramenofsky and Henry Dobyns. It tests the hypothesis that depopulation was causal in the changes which took place. After reviewing the historical background on the study area, European trade goods recovered from archaeological contexts are seriated to provide fine chronological control for sites of the early historic period. This temporal framework is then used as a backdrop against which culture change is measured. Evidence exists for depopulation in the study area. Although limited, these data do suggest that both site size and number of sites decreased. The frequency of mass and multiple graves and evidence of population movements are also discussed as measures of depopulation. Evidence for political disintegration is much more dramatic. The end of the construction of public works, such as mounds and palisades, is shown to have taken place no later than the first third of the seventeenth century and elaborate hierarchies of sites disappeared at this time. So

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Author

Smith, Marvin T.

Publisher

1984.

Published

1984

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction