Discoveries in Hatteras: European and Native American Cultural Contact and Assimilation.

Summary

Excavations at the early contact Native American site on Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, North Carolina has yielded an incredibly varied material culture that displays all aspects of early Native/European contact in the area. Our collection of newly discovered early European expansion period artefacts, found at the Cape Creek site, a major Croatoan town and trade hub, hints at intense contact between the natives and the first European settlers. This paper is the first academic release of results from the Dig:Hatteras excavation on Buxton Island in the Outer Banks, pointing to the spread of colonists influence some 50 miles southeast of the settlement on Roanoke and strongly hinting at not only contact but possible cultural assimilation with the Natives. This paper will discuss our data as well as methodological approaches to a complicated site of great cultural importance.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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