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The search for Mabila : the decisive battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
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- ISBN: 9780817355425
- ISBN: 0817316590
- ISBN: 9780817355425
- ISBN: 0817355421
- ISBN: 9780817382421
- ISBN: 0817382429
- Physical Description: x, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Papers originally delivered at the conference "The Search for Mabila : A Three-Day Multidisciplinary Workshop", held at the University of Alabama, Sept. 28-30, 2006. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An account of the Battle of Mabila, by an eyewitness / Luys Hernández de Biedma, translated and edited by John E. Worth -- The Battle of Mabila in historical perspective / Lawrence A. Clayton -- How historical are the de Soto chronicles? / George E. Lankford -- The de Soto map and the luna narratives: an overview of other sixteenth-century sources / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- A review of de Soto's itinerary between Talisi and Apafalaya / Vernon James Knight jr. -- The village of Mabila: archaeological expectations / Ned J. Jenkins -- What Indian pottery of sixteenth-century central Alabama looks like and why it matters / Amanda L. Regnier -- What do Spanish expeditionary artifacts of circa 1540 look like and how often are they preserved? / Gregory A. Waselkove -- The present state of archaeological survey and site file data for the Alabama River and adjacent regions / Craig T. Sheldon jr. -- The United States and Alabama de Soto commissions / Douglas E. Jones -- Seeking methods that work / Vernon James Knight jr. -- A comparative analysis of the de Soto accounts on the route and events at Mabila / Robbie Ethridge [and others] -- The Battle of Mabila: competing narratives / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- Tracing De Soto's trail to Mabila / Eugene M. Wilson, Douglas E. Jones, and Neal G. Lineback -- The archaeology of Mabila's cultural landscape / Gregory A. Waselkov, Linda Derry, and Ned J. Jenkins. |
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| Genre: | Conference papers and proceedings. History. |
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