About the Author

Dennis B. Blanton is an assistant professor of anthropology at James Madison University in Virginia, USA. He is coauthor, with Wes Patterson, Jeffrey B. Glover, and Frankie Snow, of Point of Contact: Archaeological Evaluation of a Potential De Soto Encampment in Georgia. He is also coeditor, with Robert A. DeVillar, of Archaeologi­cal Encounters with Georgia’s Spanish Period, 1526–1700: New Findings and Per­spectives, and, with Julia A. King, of Indian and European Contact in Context: The Middle Atlantic Region.