Environmental History of the 18th C. Southeast

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Eighteenth-Century Southeast


April 29, 1994
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
University of Georgia Tate Student Center
Room 137
Athens, GA

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and co-sponsored by the
Department of History and the Department of Geography, University of
Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Introduction

The human and natural world of the eighteenth-century Southeast was
composed of a complex social order of Native Americans, Africans, and
Europeans living and interacting in the once vast Southern forest. This
symposium explores facets of this world--a world swept away by plantation
agriculture, the removal of the Native Americans, and the drastic
alteration of the natural landscape.


Participants

Dr. Kathryn Braund, Independent Scholar
Dr. Carole Crumley, Department of Anthropology, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Louis DeVorsey, Department of Geography, University of Georgia
Richard Durschlag, Department of History, Duke University
Dr. Thomas G. Dyer, Department of History, University of Georgia
Robbie Ethridge, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Dr. Thomas Hatley, Executive Director, The Catskill Center
Daniel Hickerson, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Dr. Charles Hudson, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Gregory Keyes, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
David McKivergan, Jr., Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Jon Sensbach, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi
Claudio Saunt, Department of History, Duke University
Dr. Daniel Usner, Department of History, Cornell University
Dr. Gregory Waselkov, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of South Alabama
Dr. Peter Wood, Department of History, Duke University

Program of Events

Morning Session - Dr. Louis DeVorsey, Chairperson

8:30 Dr. Charles Hudson, Introductory Remarks
8:30 - 9:00 Dr. Daniel Usner, The Social History of a Colonial Region: A
Lower Mississippi Valley Illustration of Problems and Opportunities
9:00 - 9:30 Dr. Thomas Hatley, World Turned Upside Down? Thoughts on
Regional Environmental Change
9:30 - 10:00 Dr. Kathryn Braund, Social and Environmental Consequences of
the Creek Indian Deerskin Trade with Anglo America
10:00 - 10:30 Dr. Gregory Waselkov, Current Research on the Archaeology and
Ethnohistory of Colonial Alabama
10:30 - 11:30 Dr. Carole Crumley and Dr. Peter Wood, Discussion

11:30 - 12: 30 LUNCH

Afternoon Session - Dr. Thomas G. Dyer, Chairperson

12:30 - 1:00 Jon Sensbach, Black and White Moravians in Backcountry North
Carolina
1:00 - 1:30 Richard Durschlag, Creek Indians and the Background of the
Yamasee Wars
1:30 - 2:00 David A. McKivergan, Jr., Yamasee Landuse and Political
Interaction in Colonial South Carolina
2:00 - 2:30 Claudio Saunt, Black-Red Relations in the Eighteenth-Century
Deep South Interior

2:30 - 2:45 BREAK

2:45 - 3:15 Robbie Ethridge, The Environment of the Late
Eighteenth-Century Lower Creek Towns
3:15 - 3:45 Gregory Keyes, Roads of Water and Paths to the Underworld:
Choctaw Ethnoecology
3:45 - 4:15 Daniel Hickerson, Reconstructing the Environment of the
Eighteenth-Century Hasinai Caddo
4:15 - 5:15 Dr. Peter Wood and Dr. Carole Crumley, Discussion

You are cordially invited to attend this symposium. We hope that the
diversity of these papers will have something of interest to all scholars of
the 18th century Southeastern region.

Thank you,

Dana Gray, Graduate Secretary, Department of Anthropology, Baldwin
Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1619, (706) 542-3962,
Fax: (706) 542-3998, Internet: dgray@sherlock.dac.uga.edu

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