Introduction: Historical Dynamics in the Contact Era; S.M. Wilson, J.D. Rogers. Theoretical Orientations on Culture Contact: Structure and History; S.M. Wilson. The Persistence of an Explanatory Dilemma in Contact Period Studies; R.D. Leonard. North America: Stone Tools, Steel Tools; D.B. Bamforth. The Social and Material Implications of Culture Contact on the Northern Plains; J.D. Rogers. Kee-Oh-Na-Wah'-Wah; T.K. Perttula. Economic and Adaptive Change Among the Lake Superior Chippewa of the 19th Century C.E. Cleland. Historic Creek Indian Responses to European Trade and the Rise of Political Factions; G.A. Waselkov. Assessing the Significance of European Goods in 17th Century Narragansett Society; W.A. Turnbaugh. Mesoamerica: Socioeconomic Change within Native Society in Colonial Soconusco, New Spain; J. Gasco. The Living Pay for the Dead; W.R. Fowler. Urban and Rural Dimensions of the Contact Period; T.H. Charlton, P. Fournier. Index.