Join us for four 15-minute presentations followed by a roundtable discussion with scholars collectively working to develop enhanced understanding of the social landscape in the centuries preceding, during, and after the Spanish Entradas led by DeSoto (1539-1543) and Juan Pardo (1566-1568). Questions we will consider include: How can we better situate spaces and places associated with Indigenous presence and colonial encounters in absolute time? How can we see beyond the time-stamped descriptions of Spanish colonial observers into the landscapes that contextualized those encounters? How do we articulate and transcend the archaeology-history divide when seeking to understand the impacts and outcomes of these encounters?

Made possible with funding from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Carl and Sally Gable Fund for Southern Colonial American History, the Georgia Museum of Natural History, and the Department of Anthropology, and New South Associates.