Their number become thinned: native American population dynamics in eastern North America

✍ Scribed by Henry F. Dobyns, William R. Swagerty

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Year: 1983
Tongue: English
Leaves: 396
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

DOBYNS, H. F.: THEIR NUMBER BECOME THINNED. NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION DYNAMICS IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. KNOXVILLE, TN, 1983, xvii 378 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page xvii)
Introduction (page 3)
Essay One: Widowing the Coveted Land (page 7)
Essay Two: Population of the Native American Paradise Lost (page 33)
Essay Three: The Food Resource Potential of Florida under Aboriginal Native American Management (page 47)
Essay Four: Timucuan Population in the 1560s (page 147)
Essay Five: Reassessment of Timucuan Sedentarism (page 213)
Essay Six: An Outline of Florida Epidemiology (page 247)
Essay Seven: Depopulation as a Dynamic of Cultural Change (page 297)
Bibliography (page 345)
Index (page 370)

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