History of Georgia before English Colonization:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings

ONLINE RESOURCES

The internet can be accessed from the Georgia Room's computer workstations. In addition to these websites, GALILEO databases including JSTOR and America: History and Life, which are accessible on campus or with an off-campus password, can provide relevant information and sources.

New Georgia Encyclopedia.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Relevant articles include: Creek Indians, English Trade in Deerskins and Indian Slaves, Hernando de Soto in Georgia, Late Prehistoric/Early Historic Chiefdoms, Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, Mississippian Period: Overview, Spanish Exploration, Spanish Missions

"Encounter and Exchange: Early Georgia." Georgia Historical Society.
http://www.georgiahistory.com/containers/47

Worth, John E. Lost Worlds: Georgia Before Oglethorpe.
http://www.lostworlds.org/ga_before_oglethorpe.html
Website by historian/anthropologist John E. Worth includes articles, links, and FAQs about pre-colonial Georgia.

VERTICAL FILES

These folders include the most relevant information on pre-colonial Georgia, but other folders also include related articles. Look through the vertical file index for a complete listing of folders and topics.

General Information

Archaeology (3 folders), Desoto's Route, Etowah Mounds (3), Indian Mounds (2), Indians (3), Margravate of Azilia, Missions, St. Catherine's Island, Spanish Missions.

Biography

Desoto, Hernando

SECONDARY WORKS

American Indians before European Settlement

Blitz, John H. and Karl G. Lorenz. The Chattahoochee Chiefdoms. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.
E99 .M6815 B56 2006

King, Adam. Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003.
E99 .M6815 K56 2003

Moorehead, Warren King. Exploration of the Etowah Site in Georgia: The Etowah Papers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
E74 .G3 P4 2000

White, Max E. The Archaeology and History of the Native Georgia Tribes. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
E78 .G3 W54 2002

European Exploration and Early Colonization

Cook, Jeannine. Columbus and the Land of Ayllon: The Exploration and Settlement of the Southeast. Valona, Ga.: Lower Altamaha Historical Society, 1992.
F314 .C73 1992

Hudson, Charles. Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
E125 .S7 H85 1997

Reese, Trevor R. The Most Delightful Country of the Universe; Promotional Literature of the Colony of Georgia, 1717-1734. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1972.
F289 .M86

Ross, Mary. With Pardo and Boyano on the Fringes of the Georgia Land. Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1930.
E125 .P22 R6

American Indians and Europeans in Pre-colonial Georgia

Arias, David. Spanish Cross in Georgia. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994.
E78 .G3 A75 1994

Blakely, Robert L. The King Site: Continuity and Contact in Sixteenth-Century Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
F294 .K54 K56 1988

Bolton, Herbert E., and Mary Ross. The Debatable Land; A Sketch of the Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Georgia Country. New York: Russell & Russell, 1968.
F289 .B73 1968
Bolton and Ross were some of the first historians to examine the pre-colonial period. This work is one of their classic studies of the period.

Calmes, Alan. Indian Cultural Traditions and European Conquest of the Georgia-South Carolina Coastal Plain, 3000 B.C. - 1733 A.D.: A Combined Archeological and Historical Investigation. Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina, 1967.
E98 .C9 C3

Corkran, David H. The Creek Frontier, 1540-1783. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.
E99 .C9 C65

*Hahn, Steven C. The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
E99 .C9 H34 2004 [ON ORDER]

Hudson, Charles, and Carmen Chaves Tesser, eds. The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
F212 .F67 1993

Lanning, John Tate. The Spanish Missions of Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.
F289 .L292s
Lanning was another early historian of Spanish Georgia, and his work has been particularly influential in the field of pre-colonial history of the Southeast.

Milanich, Jerald T. Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.
E78 .S65 M55 1999

Milanich, Jerald, and Samuel Proctor, eds. Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1978.
E78 .F6 T33

Perdue, Theda. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.
E99 .C5 P394

Roethler, Michael. Negro Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, 1540-1866. Ph.D. diss., Fordham University, 1964.
E99 .C5 R58

Ross, Mary. The Restoration of the Spanish Missions in Georgia, 1598-1606. Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1926.
F295 .M6 R8

Ross, Mary. Spanish Days in Glynn County: Old Tabby Ruins that Recall the Story of the Long Forgotten Past: Some Bits of Local History. Brunswick, Ga.: Book Shop Inc. Press, 1999.
F292 .G5 R6 1999a

Swanton, John R. Early History of the Creek Indians and their Neighbors. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1922.
E99 .C9 S9 1922
Swanton compiled perhaps the most comprehensive and important early examination of American Indians before and after European contact in this classic work on Southeastern Indians.

Thomas, David Hurst. St. Catherines: An Island in Time. Atlanta: Georgia Endowment for the Humanities, 1988.
E99 .G82 T48 1988

Worth, John E. The Struggle for the Georgia Coast. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
F289 .W67 2007

UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

UGA theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and, like all Georgia Room sources, cannot be checked out.

Bowne, Eric Everett. "A Bold and Warlike People": The Origin, Career, and Decline of the Westo Indians in the Early Colonial South. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 2003.
LXC16 2003 Bowne, E. [Internet Resource]

Ebel, Carol Sue. First Men: Changing Patterns of Leadership on the Virginia and Georgia Frontiers, 1642-1815. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1996.
LXC16 1996 .E15

Hahn, Steven Christopher. "A Miniature Arms Race": The Role of the Flintlock in Initiating Indian Dependency in the Colonial Southeastern United States, 1655-1730. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1995.
LXC15 1995 .H148

JOURNALS AND ARTICLES

Relevant journals and articles in hard copy in the Georgia Room

Early Georgia E78 .G3 E2
Bi-annual professional archaeology journal with a focus on early and pre-historic history of the Southeast.

Southern Exposure. F206 .S72
Selected relevant articles include:
Stefanco-Schill, Carolyn. "The Gualean Revolt of 1957: Anticolonialism in the Old South." Southern Exposure 12 (Nov-Dec 1984): 4-9.

Georgia Historical Quarterly. F281 .G352
Selected relevant articles include:
Coleman, Kenneth. "The Southern Frontier: Georgia's Founding and the Expansion of South Carolina." Georgia Historical Quarterly 56 (1972): 163-174.
Hudson, Charles. "A Spanish-Coosa Alliance in Sixteenth-Century North Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (1988): 599-626.
Pearson, Fred Lamar. "The Arguelles Inspection of Guale: December 21, 1677 - January 10, 1678." Georgia Historical Quarterly 59 (1975): 210-222.
Peck, Douglas T. "Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon's Doomed Colony of San Miguel de Gualdape." Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 183-198.

Journal of South Georgia History. F286 .J8
Selected relevant articles include:
Erwin, Charles. "Testing the Soto Chronicles." Journal of South Georgia History 14 (1999): 25-45.
Hudson, Charles M. "The Genesis of Georgia's Indians." Journal of South Georgia History 3 (1985): 1-16.

Selected articles accessible through GALILEO databases:

Blakely, Robert L., David S. Mathews. "Bioarchaeological Evidence for a Spanish-Native American Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast." American Antiquity 55 (1990): 718-744.

Gannon, Michael. "The New Alliance of History and Archaeology in the Eastern Spanish Borderlands." William & Mary Quarterly 49 (1992): 321-334.

Garrison, Ervan G., James G. Baker, David Hurst Thomas. "Magnetic Prospection and the Discovery of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia." Journal of Field Archaeology 12 (1985): 299-313.

Hann, John H. "Twilight of the Mocamo and Guale Aborigines as Portrayed in the 1695 Spanish Visitation." Florida Historical Quarterly 66 (1987): 1-24.

Larson, Lewis H., Jr. "The Spanish on Sapelo." State University of West Georgia: Studies in the Social Sciences. 19 (1980): 35-45.

Milner, George R. et al. "Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents: What Damaged the King Site Skeletons?" American Antiquity 65 (2000): 355-363.

Pearson, Charles. "Evidence of Early Spanish Contact on the Georgia Coast." Historical Archaeology 11 (1977): 74-83.

Sturtevant, William C. "Spanish-Indian Relations in the Southeastern North America." Ethnohistory 9 (1962): 41-94.

 

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