Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1300-1702

Download or read book Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1300-1702 written by Rebecca Saunders and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000-04-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using changes in the features of their pottery as a guide, Saunders (Curator of Anthropology, Louisiana State U.) traces the course of the lifeways of one of the first the groups of Native Americans in the southeastern US to come into contact with Spanish and French colonists. From prehistory through European contact to the end of the Mission period, she shows how especially the frequency and execution of the filfot cross, which is a symbol of Guale cosmology, adapted as part of their strategy to survive as a society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR