European Trade Goods
By the final phase of Caborn-Welborn culture, European trade items begin to be deposited in graves. These include copper and brass tubes, glass beads, and bracelets. This is not indicative of direct European contact however. The items could have made their way to the Caborn-Welborn area by the native trade routes which had brought exotic materials such as marine shells and native copper to the area for centuries. But with these goods also came European diseases such as smallpox and measles, which generally penetrated the American continents far in advance of the actual Europeans expeditions. With little or no immunity to the European diseases, many Native cultures vanished before the Europeans made direct physical contact with them. The Caborn-Welborn culture is one such group.
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