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Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology
Inbunden, 2014
927 kr
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These essays highlight the differences between the archaeological focus on animals as the food source of their time and the belief among zooarchaeologists that animals represent a far more complex ecology. With broad methodological and interpretive analysis of sites throughout the region, the …
New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida
Av Neill J. Wallis, Asa R. Randall
Inbunden, 2014
935 kr
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Given its pivotal location be¬tween the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Yet Florida traditionally has been considered peripheral in the study of ancient cultures …
Archaeology of the Everglades
Häftad, 2017
355 kr
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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 …
Constructing Histories
Archaic Freshwater Shell Mounds and Social Landscapes of the St. Johns River, Florida
Häftad, 2015
892 kr
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Large accumulations of ancient shells on coastlines and riverbanks were long considered the result of garbage disposal during repeated food gatherings by early inhabitants of the southeastern United States. In this volume, Asa R. Randall presents the first new theoretical framework for examining …
French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean
Av Kenneth G. Kelly, Meredith D. Hardy
Häftad, 2015
283 kr
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This innovative collection of essays brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French colonization. Specific contributions explore foodways, …
Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro De Maita, Cuba
Inbunden, 2016
994 kr
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During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous people became ""Indios,"" their language, appearance, and identity transformed by the domination imposed by a foreign model that Christianized and …
Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire
Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site
Av Robin A. Beck, Robin A. Beck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1052 kr
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Built in 1566 by Spanish conquistador Juan Pardo, Fort San Juan is the earliest known European settlement in the interior United States. Located at the Berry site in western North Carolina, the fort and its associated domestic compound stood near the Native American town of Joara, whose residents …
Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland
Av Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry
Inbunden, 2016
877 kr
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Moundville, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is one of the largest pre-Columbian mound sites in North America. Comprising twenty-nine earthen mounds that were once platforms for chiefly residences and temples, Moundville was a major political and religious center for the people living in its region and …
Late Prehistoric Florida
Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World
Av Keith Ashley, Nancy Marie White
Häftad, 2016
370 kr
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Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the Mississippian southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). This groundbreaking volume lifts the veil of uniformity frequently draped over these regions in the …
Discovering Florida
First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions Along the Lower Gulf Coast
Häftad, 2016
312 kr
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Florida's lower gulf coast was a key region in the early European exploration of North America, with an extraordinary number of first-time interactions between Spaniards and Florida's indigenous cultures. Discovering Florida compiles all the major writings of Spanish explorers in the area between …
Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast
Inbunden, 2016
994 kr
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For more than 130 years, research aimed at understanding Paleoindian occupation of the coastal Southeast has progressed at a glacial pace. In this volume, James Dunbar suggests that the most important archaeological and paleontological resources in the Americas still remain undiscovered in …
Gathering at Silver Glen
Community and History in Late Archaic Florida
Inbunden, 2016
994 kr
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Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BP, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late Archaic community of Silver Glen—one of Florida’s most elaborate shell mound complexes—integrated people and places from throughout Florida by staging …
Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast
Adaptation, Conflict, and Change
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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In Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast, Dale Hutchinson explores the role of human adaptation along the Gulf Coast of Florida and the influence of coastal foraging on several indigenous Florida populations. The Sarasota landmark known as Historic Spanish Point has captured the attention of …
Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast
Av Alice P. Wright, Edward R. Henry
Häftad, 2019
341 kr
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Fourteen in-depth case studies incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North …
Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast
Häftad, 2019
341 kr
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The late Pleistocene-early Holocene landscape hosted more species and greater numbers of them in the Southeast compared to any other region in North America at that time. Yet James Dunbar posits that a misguided reliance on using Old World origins to validate New World evidence has stalled research …
Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland
Av Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry
Häftad, 2019
341 kr
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A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the Moundville region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations.
Taíno Indian Myth and Practice
The Arrival of the Stranger King
Häftad, 2022
312 kr
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Applying the legend of the "stranger king" to Caonabo, the mythologized Taino chief of the Hispaniola settlement Columbus invaded in 1492, Keegan examines how myths come to resonate as history--created by the chaotic interactions of the individuals who lived the events of the past as well as those …
Grit-Tempered
Av Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. Sullivan m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
341 kr
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This volume documents the lives and work of pioneering women archaeologists in the southeastern United States from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Missions to the Calusa
Av John H. Hann, William H. Marquardt
Häftad, 2024
399 kr
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A compilation of historical documents written by Europeans during the colonization of southwest FloridaWhen Europeans arrived in southwest Florida in the early sixteenth century, they encountered a complex and powerful society. The Calusa have posed an enigma to many anthropologists and historians. …
Puerto Real
The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola
Häftad, 2026
403 kr
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Essays on the history and excavation of a key site for understanding early Spanish colonization in the CaribbeanPuerto Real, Haiti, is the site of the largest and most intensive archaeological excavation of any Spanish colony in the Caribbean. It is a primary data source for understanding all …
Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean
Inbunden, 2016
994 kr
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In this volume, Ivan Roksandic and an international team of researchers trace population movement throughout the Caribbean, specifically to Cuba. Through analysis of early agriculture, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, and more, they present a new theory of …
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
Exploring the Spaces in Between
Av James A. Delle, Lynsey A. Bates m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1052 kr
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Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them—slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment—have been studied extensively. This volume turns the focus to the places and times where the rules of the plantation system did not always apply, including the …
Setting the Table
Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucía and La Florida
Inbunden, 2017
935 kr
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Examining ceramics from eighteenth-century household sites in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and St. Augustine, Florida, Setting the Table opens up new interpretations of cultural exchange and identity in the early modern Spanish empire. To analyze and compare tableware from these far-removed …
Fit for War
Sustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation
Inbunden, 2017
935 kr
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The Catawba Nation played an important role in the early colonial Southeast, serving as a military ally of the British and a haven for refugees from other native groups, yet it has largely been overlooked by scholars and the public. Fit for War explains how the Nation maintained its sovereignty …
Water from Stone
Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs
Inbunden, 2017
877 kr
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In Water from Stone, Jason O'Donoughue investigates the importance of natural springs to ancient Floridians. Throughout their history, Florida's springs have been gathering places for far-flung peoples. O'Donoughue finds that springs began flowing several millennia earlier than previously thought, …
Mississippian Beginnings
Av Gregory D. Wilson, Gregory D. Wilson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1052 kr
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Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across …
Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery
An Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740-1780
Inbunden, 2017
852 kr
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Inspired by the Quaker ideals of simplicity, equality, and peace, a group of white planters formed a community in the British Virgin Islands during the eighteenth century. Yet they lived in a slave society, and nearly all their members held enslaved people. In this book, John Chenoweth examines how …
Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space
The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery
Av Grace Turner
Inbunden, 2017
877 kr
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Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas worked, voluntarily or not, and possessed material items of various degrees of importance to them and within their culture. St. Matthews was a cemetery in Nassau at the water's edge--or sometimes slightly below. This project emerged from archaeological …
Investigating the Ordinary
Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology
Av Sarah E. Price, Philip J. Carr
Inbunden, 2018
994 kr
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Focusing on the daily concerns and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate. Instead of dividing archaeological work by time periods or artifact types, the essays in this volume unite separate areas …
Harney Flats
A Florida Paleoindian Site
Av I. Randolph Daniel, Michael Wisenbaker
Häftad, 2017
341 kr
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Discovered during construction of the I-75 corridor northeast of Tampa, the site of Harney Flats was a turning point in the archaeology of the southeastern United States. Beneath evidence of human settlement from the Middle Archaic period, researchers unearthed Paleoindian stone tools – …
