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The 500-year anniversary of the dramatic encounter of Old and New World peoples initiated by the Columbian voyages lends a somewhat artificial perspective to the phenomenon of “culture contact.” Although this volume and, to an extent, our individual research interests are conditioned by the quincentenary of a remarkable event, we are primarily interested in the contact period as the beginning of an extended process of mutual discovery and cultural change that continues to the present day.
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Wilson, S.M., Rogers, J.D. (1993). Historical Dynamics in the Contact Era. In: Rogers, J.D., Wilson, S.M. (eds) Ethnohistory and Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1115-5_1
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