The Caddo Nation: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives

by Timothy K. Perttula

First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro-Americans. Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records. The work focuses on changes from A.D. 1520 to ca. A.D. 1800 and challenges many long-standing assumptions about the nature of these changes.

Genres: Archaeology, Anthropology

344 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

Reviews

[Frrobins]

I live a bit outside of East Texas, and when I travel there I see signs with Caddo on them often and I have stayed at Caddo Lake. So I was curious about the people who inhabited the area first and decided to pick up this book to learn more about them. Unfortunately this book was not about the Caddo so much as it was about their contact with Europeans, sources and some rather detailed archaeological perspectives, and more time was devoted to sources and methods than the Caddo. In short, I don't really feel qualified to judge this book, other than to say it was not what I was expecting or interested in as a layperson.