The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration Of The Carolinas And Tennessee, 1566-1568

An early Spanish explorer's account of American Indians. This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo's routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians, and clues to the ethnic identities of Indians known previously only through archaeology. The new afterword reveals recent archaeological evidence of Pardo's Fort San Juan--the earliest site of sustained interaction between Europeans and Indians--demonstrating the accuracy of Hudson's route reconstructions. Charles Hudsonis Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History Emeritus at the University of Georgia and author ofKnights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms.Paul E. Hoffmanis Paul W. and Nancy W. Murrill Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author ofFlorida's Frontiers.David G. Mooreteaches archaeology at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, and is the author ofCatawbaValleyMississippian: Ceramics, Chronology, and Catawba Indians.Robin A. Beck Jr.is currently Visiting Scholar at the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.Christopher B. Rodningis currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma and the coeditor ofArchaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States.

Charles Hudson is Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History Emeritus at the University of Georgia and author of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms.