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In
the first book about the archaeology of gender in native societies of
southeastern North America, these lively essays reconstruct the
different social roles and relationships adopted by women and men before
and after the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century.
Jon Gibson confronts the intriguing mystery of Poverty Point, the ruins of a large prehistoric Indian settlement that was home to one of the most fascinating ancient cultures in eastern North America.
Jon Gibson confronts the intriguing mystery of Poverty Point, the ruins of a large prehistoric Indian settlement that was home to one of the most fascinating ancient cultures in eastern North America.
From studies of Antietam Battlefield, site of the bloodiest day in American military history, to
Andersonville, the infamous Confederate prison, these graphically illustrated essays broaden our understanding of the American Civil War.
Beneath the modern city of
Pensacola and its surrounding waters, the colonial past
is abundantly preserved. This is the first book to
examine those archaeological riches.
Originally prepared as a report for the National Park Service in 1988, Griffin's work places the human occupation of the Everglades within the context of South Florida's unique natural environmental systems. He documents, for the first time, the little known but relatively extensive precolumbian occupation of the interior portion of the region and surveys the material culture of the Glades area.
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.
This volume summarizes our archeological knowledge of natives who inhabited the American Southeast from 8,000 to 3,000 years ago and examines evidence of many of the native cultural expressions observed by early European explorers, including long-distance exchange, plant domestication, mound building, social ranking, and warfare.
Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown introduces the Powhatans--the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains who played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements--in scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians to the present day.
These important essays address the biological consequences of the arrival of Europeans in the New World and on the lifeways of native populations following contact in the late 16th century. Moving away from monocausal explanations of population change, they maintain that disease should be viewed as only a facet of a complex problem and that issues relating to diet, nutrition, activity, the work environment, and social and political change are equally important.
Elizabeth P. Benson provides an engaging overview of the depiction of animals in the pre-Columbian art of Latin America. Drawing on an extensive set of images (many of them previously unpublished) from the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Florida Museum of Natural History, she examines the practical, ritualistic, and mythic importance of animals in pre-Columbian life as well as the meanings that animals still have for the modern descendants of those indigenous peoples.
These compelling essays about Native American chiefs and their rise to power break new ground in the study of chiefdoms and their origins. Archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists bring up to date the information about many complex chiefdoms that flourished throughout the Americas, in which numerous villages and regions were ruled single-handedly by hereditary chiefs.
This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida’s earliest indigo, rice, and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. Based on primary research in archives in England, Scotland, Spain, Cuba, Minorca, and Florida as well as upon archaeological investigations, the essays trace for the first time the relationship of Florida to both the Caribbean and the Atlantic economies and document Florida’s national and international significance in the colonial period.
Writing about a powerful Native American society at the dawn of European contact, Marvin Smith, in a colorfully illustrated book, traces the rise and collapse of the chiefdom of Coosa, located in the Ridge and Valley province of northwestern Georgia and adjacent states.
The creation stories, myths, and migration legends of the Creek Indians who once populated southeastern North America are centuries--if not millennia--old. For the first time, an extensive collection of all known versions of these stories has been compiled from the reports of early ethnographers, sociologists, and missionaries, obscure academic journals, travelers' accounts, and from Creek and Yuchi people living today.
First published more than 100 years ago, this
illustrated monograph on the Key Marco site on Florida’s Gulf
Coast reports on archaeological discoveries that have never been duplicated.
Spectacular discoveries at Mound C at the Etowah site in Georgia, the result of excavations there and in Mississippi from 1924 to 1928, changed the American perspective of the artistic achievements of prehistoric Native Americans in the eastern United States.
Florida's Colonial Architectural Heritage is the story of how buildings were planned and constructed in Florida from 1565 to 1821, the 256 years that the colony was ruled by Spain and England. From indigenous Native American dwellings through Spanish/Indian, Spanish, and British architecture, Gordon traces the styles, materials, uses, and context of almost every building recorded or standing during this period.
Dale Hutchinson provides a detailed bioarchaeological analysis exploring human adaptation in the estuary zone of North Carolina and the influence of coastal foraging during the late prehistoric transition to agriculture. He draws on observations of human skeletal remains to look at nutrition, disease, physical activity, morbidity, and mortality of coastal populations, focusing particularly on changes in nutrition and health associated with the move from foraging to farming.
With boundless enthusiasm, Mark Renz stumbles onto the skeletal remains of fierce saber-toothed cats, gentle sea cows, massive mammoths and mastodons, Volkswagen-size armadillos, and an ancient 5-ton giant ground sloth, and then shares these experiences in a humorous, illustrated book for beginning fossil collectors.
This volume documents
the lives and work of pioneering women archaeologists in
the southeastern United States, from the 1920s through
the 1960s, portraying their professional accomplishments
in the context of their personal lives.
In the early 17th
century, 150 years before Spanish missions were
established in California, a chain of missions reached
westward from St. Augustine across northern Florida.
Today nothing exists of those Florida Franciscan
outposts. Our knowledge of them comes only from archival
research and information gleaned from archaeological
excavations.
IThis volume brings together a stellar group of scholars to summarize what we know of the development of native American cultures in the southeastern United States after 1500. The authors integrate archaeological, documentary, and ethnohistorical evidence in the most comprehensive examination of diverse southeastern Indian cultures published in decades.
Dazzling numismatic treasures await readers of this new volume that catalogues and characterizes the splendors of the Florida Collection of Spanish Coins.
The State of Florida owns a vast collection, nearly 23,000 specimens, of Spanish
treasure coins salvaged from shipwrecks in Florida waters. It is the largest of its kind in existence.
This classic portrait of the Seminole people, written at a time when their way of life was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, was originally published
Brent Weisman explores Seminole and Miccosukee culture
through information provided by archaeology, ethnography, historical documents, and the words of the Indians
themselves.
Other Titles
The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida - Volume II: Resistance and Destruction
- For more information on southeastern U.S. and Caribbean archaeology, contact:
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Jerald T.
Milanich
Florida Museum of Natural History
P.O. Box 117800
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800
(352) 392 - 6791
FAX: (352) 392 - 3698