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This course examines the interface between Native American and Euro-American cultures from the arrival of Leif Ericsson in coastal Canada in the A.D. 990s through the better-documented landing of Columbus on 12 October 1492 to the progressive expansion of the frontiers and the ultimate displacement, transformation, or extinction of aboriginal eastern North American societies. The course focuses on the nature of the contact period as it is documented both historically and archaeologically and employs models and theoretical constructs from both Old and New World archaeology to elucidate the issue of cultures in collision.
