Bioarchaeological Evidence for a Spanish-Native American Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Blakely (Georgia State University, corresponding author), David S Mathews (Georgia State University) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 718-744 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281247 |
| OpenAlex | W2010843915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 20 |
As the state of Georgia marks the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of Hernando de Soto, we reflect on the other actors in the encounter. The King site, a Native American village in the sixteenth-century chiefdom of Coosa, yielded an unusually high crude death rate of 36 per 1,000. We attribute the elevated mortality to casualties from a clash with the Spaniards. Twenty percent of the King site skeletons exhibit injuries-deep gashes and cuts across two extremities-inflicted by steel weapons. Although enemies of the Coosa possessed some European weapons, the demographic profile of the fatalities-young women and middle-aged males and females-implicates the Spaniards. Comparison with European battle casualties supports the notion that the Spaniards were responsible for the injuries. The chronicles reveal de Soto's army to have been the likely perpetrator. The victims probably either resisted enslavement or attempted to free others from enslavement. The site offers the first archaeological evidence of Spanish violence in the interior Southeast
Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Chiefdom · Ethnology · Geography · Native american · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Archaeology and Natural History · Demography · Forensic and Genetic Research · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Law
Brief encounters
Death by gunshot
First Archaeological Record of the Torture and Mutilation of Indigenous Mapuche During the “War of Arauco,” Sixteenth Century
Chapter 2. Collective Burials and Community Memories
Skeletal correlates of human behavior in the americas
From hunters to hell hounds
Recent trends in the archaeology of the southeastern United States
Warfare in Prehistoric and Early Historic Eastern North America
Warfare in prehistoric and early historic eastern North America
Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains
The Archaeology of War
The taphonomy of cannibalism
Sixteenth-Century Flintknapping Kits from the King Site, Georgia
Bioarchaeological contributions to the study of violence
The Paths of the European Conquest of the Atlantic
A Reappraisal of Anasazi Cannibalism
The population of ancient Rome
Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains
The King Site
Adair's History of the American Indians
Prevalence and possible etiology of dental enamel hypoplasia
Structural changes in the femur with the transition to agriculture on the Georgia coast
Cut marks on the Bodo cranium
Disease and mortality in the early bronze age people of Bab edh‐Dhra, Jordan
Reply to Boyd and Schroedl
History of Human Life Span and Mortality
Health and Disease in the Prehistoric Southwest
Arms and the Men; 14th century Japanese swordsmanship illustrated by skeletons from Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan
History of Human Life Span and Mortality
Coosa
Arrow Wounds
Demographic Theory and Anthropological Inference
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,51 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2023 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |