Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast
by Gordon R. Willey
Fifty years after its first publication
by the Smithsonian Institution, this landmark work is back in print. Written by
the dean of North and South American archaeologists, Gordon Willey, the book
initially marked a new phase in archaeological research. It continues to offer a
major synthesis of the archaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast, with complete
descriptions and illustrations of all the pottery types found in the area.
The book contains data that remain indispensable to archaeologists working in
every region or state east of the Mississippi River. Nowhere else can the reader
find as compact, and at the same time as detailed, a summary of the numerous
ceramic types upon which Gulf Florida archaeological chronology is based. It
includes an overview of all the work early archaeologists did in the area from
the 1800s up through the time of the federal relief archaeology programs of the
1930s, and it has become the foundation upon which all subsequent research in
the Gulf area has been constructed.
Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History
Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor Emeritus of Harvard
University, is former curator of anthropology at the Harvard Peabody Museum.
1998. 696 pp. 6 X 9.
60 b&w photos, 76 drawings and graphs, 20 maps, 17 tables, 1 fold-out illustration, 2 appendixes, bibliography.
ISBN 0-8130-1603-7Paper, $29.95s
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"By the end of 1950, only about a dozen
publications in American archaeology might be said to stand as
monumental contributions from the points of view of prodigious
industry, presentation of new data, good organization, balanced
interpretation, and clear writing. Of these, the reviewer regards
Gordon Willey’s great volume on the Florida Gulf Coast as
perhaps the best of all."--American Antiquity
"Gordon Willey's Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast
literally set the agenda for archaeological research in north
Florida. . . . It forms the basis for our understanding of the
prehistoric period in this area. . . . It is impossible to do
research in the Gulf Coast region without it."--Charles
R. Ewen, East Carolina University