Timucua

Jerald T. Milanich is Curator in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. His ten previous books include Florida Archaeology (1980), The Early Prehistoric Southeast (Garland, 1985) and First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (1989). With the exception of a year's post-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, Jerald Milanich has spent some thirty years in Florida researching the nature of past and present American Indian societies of the American southeast.

"This excellent anthrohistorical work should be in the library of everyone interested in Native Americans." Choice

• Preface. 1. The Beginning.2. Who Were the Timucua?.3. The Invasion.4. Spanish Missions.5. Mission Settlements and Subsistence.6. The Organization of Societies.7. Beliefs and Behavior.8. The End.Bibliography.