1.  First Contacts
 Sea-based contact
 Ship as moveable fort
 Brief beach landings
 Early narratives

2.  Early interior exploration
 Spanish expeditions
 English intracoastal explorations
 River-based exploration
 Fall-line as a limiting condition

3.  Settlements
 Camp/depot/fortification
 Star earthwork mounds
 Military/civilian mix
 
4.  Early architecture
 Palisade Fortifications
 Wattle & daub construction
 Church at Jamestown

5.  Town and Fort
 Extended settlement
 Near-fort fields
 Fort-contiguous housing
 Hardened houses/redoubts
 Diverse population in the fort

6.  Emergent Hemi-sphere settlement
 Fort/town as core
 Adjacent fields as dependent periphery
 Meinung's model

7.  Inadequacy of geometric/spatial models
 social complexity
 back country infiltration
 Interaction with Indians
 The 'rural' as detached from the core