Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Virginia Indians

Blanton, Dennis B., and Julia King, editors

2003 Contact Period Archaeology of the Chesapeake. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Egloff, Keith, and Deborah Woodward

1994 First People: The Early Indians of Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Gallivan, Martin D.

2003 James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Hantman, Jeffrey L.

1990 Between Powhatan and Quirank: Reconstructing Monacan Culture and History in the Context of Jamestown. American Anthropologist 92: 676-690.

Potter, Stephen R.

1993 Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquin Culture in the Potomac Valley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

Rountree, Helen C., and Thomas E. Davidson

1997 Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Rountree, Helen C., and E. Randolph Turner III

2002 Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and their Predecessors. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Rountree, Helen C., editor

1993 Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Rountree, Helen C., and E. Randolph Turner III

1998 The Evolution of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom in Virginia. In Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas, edited by E. Redmond, pp. 265-296. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

1994 On the Fringe of the Southeast: The Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom in Virginia. In The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704, edited by C. Hudson and C. Tesser, pp. 355-72. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Turner, E. Randolph III

1993 Native American Protohistoric Interactions in the Powhatan Core Area. In Powhatan Foreign Relations: 1500-1722, edited by H. C. Rountree, pp. 76-93. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

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Virginia Indians History and Ethnohistory

Fausz, J. Frederick

1985 Patterns of Anglo-Indian Aggression and Accommodation along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, 1584 - 1634. In Cultures in Contact: The European Impact on Native Cultural Institutions in Eastern North America, A.D. 1000-1800, edited by W.W. Fitzhugh, pp. 225-268. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Gleach, Frederic W.

1997 Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Hulton, Paul

1984 American 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Lewis, Clifford M., and Albert Loomie, editors

1953 The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia, 1570-1572. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle, and Sandra F. Waugaman,

2000 We're Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories. Richmond: Polaris Publishng.

Rountree, Helen C.

1990 Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

1989 The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: The Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Smith, John

1986 A True Relation. In The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631), edited by P. L. Barbour, vol. 1, pp. 5-117. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

1986 A Map of Virginia. In The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631), edited by P. L. Barbour, vol. 1, pp. 119-189. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

1986 The Proceedings. In The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631), edited by P. L. Barbour, vol. 1, pp. 191-279. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Spelman, Henry

1998 Relation of Virginia. In Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, edited by E.W. Haile, pp. 497-519. Champlain, Virginia: Roundhouse.

Strachey, William

1953 The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania. Glasgow: The University Press.

Turner, E. Randolph, III

1985 Socio-Political Organization within the Powhatan Chiefdom and the Effects of European Contact, A.D. 1607-1646. In Cultures in Contact: The European Impact on Native Cultural Institutions in Eastern North America, A.D. 1000-1800, edited by W.W. Fitzhugh, pp. 193-224. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Williamson, Margaret Holmes

2003 Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Wright, Edward

1998 Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony: the First Decade, 1607-1617. Champlain, Virginia: Round House.

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Archaeological Studies

Blanton, Dennis

2000 Drought as a Factor in The Jamestown Colony, 1607-1612. Historical Archaeology 34:74-81.

Dent, Richard J.

1995 Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions. New York: Plenum Press.

Gallivan, Martin D.

2002 Measuring Sedentariness and Settlement Population: Accumulations Research in the Middle Atlantic Region. American Antiquity 67(2): 535-557.

Hantman, Jeffrey L.

2001. Monacan History at the Dawn of Colonization: The Archaeology of the Virginia Interior A.D. 1400-1700. In Societies in Eclipse: Eastern North America at the Dawn of Colonization, edited by D. S. Brose and R. C. Mainfort, pp. 107-124. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

 

Hantman, Jeffrey L., and Debra Gold.

2001 The Woodland in the Middle Atlantic: Ranking and Political Stability. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by D.G. Anderson and R.C. Mainfort, pp. 270-291. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Turner, E. Randolph, III

1992 The Virginia Coastal Plain During the Late Woodland Period. In Middle and Late Woodland Research in Virginia: a Synthesis, edited by Theodore Reinhart and Mary Ellen N. Hodges, pp. 97-136. Richmond: Dietz Press.

 

Reinhart, Theodore, and Mary Ellen N. Hodges, editors

1992 Middle and Late Woodland Research in Virginia: A Synthesis. Richmond: Dietz Press.

 

Reinhart, Theodore, and Dennis J. Pogue, editors

1993 The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia. Richmond: Dietz Press.

Ward, H. Trawick, and R. P. Steven Davis

1999 Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

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Site Reports

Blanton, Dennis B., Stevan C. Pullins, and Veronica L. Deitrick

1999 The Potomac Creek Site (44ST2) Revisited. Virginia Department of Historic Resources Research Report Series No. 10.

Hodges, Mary Ellen N.

1998 Native American Settlement at Great Neck: Report on VDHR Archaeological Investigations of Woodland Components at Site 44VB7, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1981-1987. Virginia Department of Historic Resources Research Report Series No. 9.

Lucketti, Nicholas M., Mary Ellen N. Hodges, and Charles T. Hodges, editors

1994 Paspahegh Archaeology: Data Recovery Investigations of Site 44JC308 at the Governor’s Land at Two Rivers, James City County, Virginia. Williamsburg: James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc.

McLearan, Douglas C., and L. Daniel Mouer

1994 Jordan’s Journey III: A Preliminary Report on the 1992-1993 Excavations at Archaeological Site 44PG307. Richmond: Virginia Commonwealth University Archaeological Research Center.

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Cartographic Studies of the Contact Period

Gallivan, Martin D.

1997 Spatial Analysis of John Smith's 1612 Map of Virginia. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 13:145-160.

McCary, Ben

1981 The Location of Werowocomoco. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 36:77-93.

Turner, E. Randolph III, and Antony F. Opperman.

1993 Archaeological Manifestations of the Virginia Company Period: A Summary of Surviving Powhatan and English Settlements in Tidewater Virginia, ca. A.D. 1607-1624. In The Archaeology of Seventeenth-Century Virginia, edited by T. R. Reinhart and D. J. Pogue, pp. 67-104. Richmond: Dietz Press.

Tyler, Lyon G.

1901 Werowocomoco - Situation of the Place. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine 10 (1) 1-4.

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Native Americans and Archaeologists

Thomas, David Hurst

2000 Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. New York: Basic Books.

Swidler, Nina

1999 Native Americans and Archaeologists: Stepping Stones to Common Ground. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.

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Introductory Archaeology Texts

Ashmore, Wendy, and Robert J. Sharer.

1999 Discovering Our past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology. Mountain View: Mayfield.

Thomas, David Hurst

1998 Archaeology: Down to Earth. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

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