Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Rountree and Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history of Virginia's and Maryland's Eastern Shore Indians from a.d. 800 until the last tribes disbanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author Biography
Helen C. Rountree, Professor of Anthropology at Old Dominion University, is the author of Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries and the editor of Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722 (Virginia). Thomas E. Davidson is Chief Curator, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
