Shifting landscapes of practice in the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain during the Colonial Era

72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Nashville, TN, November 19-21, 2015

2015

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Though sporadically visited early in the European exploratory era, Native American groups of the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain generally remained isolated from formal European colonization until Spain and France established twin colonies at Pensacola and Mobile after 1698. During the 18th century, multiple extralocal groups are documented to have migrated into an already transformed borderlands landscape, creating an ethnically diverse mix of cultures originally characterized by distinct regional material culture signatures. This paper uses a landscapes of practice approach to explore the extent to which emergent communities of ceramic practice correlated with documented ethnic and political identities in this region.

Extralocal groups
Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain
Native Americans
Ceramic practices
Cultural influences

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