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The search for Mabila : the decisive battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
- Title
- The search for Mabila : the decisive battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa / edited by Vernon James Knight, Jr.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Knight, Vernon J.
- Description
- x, 277 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542 > Congresses
- Tuskaloosa, Chief > Congresses
- Mabila, Battle of, Ala., 1540 > Congresses
- Spaniards > Southern States > History > 16th century > Congresses
- Choctaw Indians > First contact with other peoples > Congresses
- Spaniards > Southern States > Antiquities
- Choctaw Indians > Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Alabama
- Southern States > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Congresses
- Note
- Papers originally delivered at the conference "The Search for Mabila : A Three-Day Multidisciplinary Workshop", held at the University of Alabama, Sept. 28-30, 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-266) and index.
- Contents
- An account of the Battle of Mabila, by an eyewitness / Luys Hernández de Biedma, translated and edited by John E. Worth -- The Battle of Mabila in historical perspective / Lawrence A. Clayton -- How historical are the de Soto chronicles? / George E. Lankford -- The de Soto map and the luna narratives: an overview of other sixteenth-century sources / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- A review of de Soto's itinerary between Talisi and Apafalaya / Vernon James Knight jr. -- The village of Mabila: archaeological expectations / Ned J. Jenkins -- What Indian pottery of sixteenth-century central Alabama looks like and why it matters / Amanda L. Regnier -- What do Spanish expeditionary artifacts of circa 1540 look like and how often are they preserved? / Gregory A. Waselkove -- The present state of archaeological survey and site file data for the Alabama River and adjacent regions / Craig T. Sheldon jr. -- The United States and Alabama de Soto commissions / Douglas E. Jones -- Seeking methods that work / Vernon James Knight jr. -- A comparative analysis of the de Soto accounts on the route and events at Mabila / Robbie Ethridge ... [et al.] -- The Battle of Mabila: competing narratives / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- Tracing De Soto's trail to Mabila / Eugene M. Wilson, Douglas E. Jones, and Neal G. Lineback -- The archaeology of Mabila's cultural landscape / Gregory A. Waselkov, Linda Derry, and Ned J. Jenkins.
- Call Number
- JGE 09-119
- ISBN
- 9780817316594 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817316590 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817355425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0817355421 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008050482
- OCLC
- 276406206
- Title
- The search for Mabila : the decisive battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa / edited by Vernon James Knight, Jr.
- Imprint
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-266) and index.
- Added Author
- Knight, Vernon J.
- Research Call Number
- JGE 09-119