Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents
What Damaged the King Site Skeletons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2560076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G R Milner (0000-0002-3330-0726, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, corresponding author), Clark Spencer Larsen (0000-0002-6905-8417, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dale L Hutchinson (East Carolina University), Matthew A Williamson (0000-0002-2550-5828), Matthew Williamson (0009-0004-7509-1776, Georgia Southern University), Dorothy A Humpf (East Tennessee State University) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 355-363 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/2694063 |
| PMID | 17607863 |
| OpenAlex | W1990696841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 28 |
It has been claimed that many Native American skeletons from the King site in Georgia show evidence of wounds from sharp-edged metal weapons that were wielded by members of the sixteenth-century de Soto expedition (Blakely and Mathews 1990). The supposed massacre of these villagers has caught the attention of the public and scholars alike. But we failed to find any evidence of damage caused by sixteenth-century Spanish weapons in our examination of the King site skeletons. Our finding-there is no evidence for a massacre-eliminates a major discrepancy between historical and archaeological information used in reconstructions of the de Soto route
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |