Conquistador's Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast. DENNIS B. BLANTON. 2020. University of Georgia Press, Athens. xv + 256 pp. $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8203-5635-8

Dennis Blanton has produced a wonderful volume on excavations at the Glass site, a sixteenth-century Native American village with an abundance of European trade goods, located in southern Georgia. The book is written for a broad audience, although footnotes provide much scholarly detail of interest...

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Published inAmerican Antiquity Vol. 85; no. 3; pp. 612 - 613
Main Author Smith, Marvin T.
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Cambridge University Press 01.07.2020
Subjects
16th century
Archaeology
Audiences
Excavation
Historic artifacts
Native North Americans
Southeastern states
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Summary:Dennis Blanton has produced a wonderful volume on excavations at the Glass site, a sixteenth-century Native American village with an abundance of European trade goods, located in southern Georgia. The book is written for a broad audience, although footnotes provide much scholarly detail of interest and importance to archaeologists and historians. The most likely mechanism for the acquisition of these items is scavenging of settlements in coastal South Carolina associated with Lucas Vázquez Ayllón (1521–1526; see, for example, the chapter by Marvin T. Smith and David J. Hally in Clay Mathers's forthcoming edited volume, Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America, in press from the University Press of Florida).
ISSN:0002-7316
2325-5064
DOI:10.1017/aaq.2020.20