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I'll be live tweeting this talk by Chris Rodning… @VandyAnthro/1091399453330886657 #anthropology #Archaeology
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Focus of the talk is Joara, an ancestral Catawba town (known as "the Berry site") and the Spanish Fort San Juan in present-day North Carolina. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_San_Juan_(Joara)
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De Soto records include polity of "Xuala" | Chris Rodning: We believe this is the same as Joara in the 1560s.
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Juan Pardo w/ 250 men traverses smaller area beginning in Santa Elena (later Parris Island, SC) and travels inland to establish Fort San Juan in 1567.
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Rodning: After this major setback, Spanish shift strategies towards missionization and trade.
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Rodning: Juan Pardo arrived and used a strategy of diplomacy and gift giving, asking for construction aid to house his soldiers. Apparently, indigenous communities saw gifts as signal of ongoing reciprocity, which would not continue.
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This bowl (3D model in link) is an example of a Native artifact from the site. sketchfab.com/models/6d889a7e3b2541b3b4be3d9910611da4
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Rodning and colleagues' work on Joara and Fort San Juan is recently published in American Antiquity… cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/road-to-zacatecas-fort-san-juan-and-the-defenses-of-spanish-la-florida/28E8CE185F0368B2BF3A190EA92FCD84
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Rodning: We aspire to have these events included in regional history, centering around Native American defeat of Spanish colonialism in North Carolina.
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Key next questions for Rodning: How did Native Americans incorporate Spanish colonists into their world? Longer perspective on culture change in the contact period.










