Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series – serie
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19 produkter
History of the Timucua Indians and Missions
Av John H. Hann
Inbunden, 1996
645 kr
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Relying on previously unused documents, this is a history of the Timucua Indians of Florida, from the first contact with Europeans, to their exile in Cuba in 1763 and their final eradication. It examines their culture, language, political structures, and the meanings of their placenames and titles.
Hernando De Soto Among the Apalachee
The Archaeology of the First Winter Encampment
Av Charles R. Ewen, John H. Hann
Häftad, 1998
338 kr
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Chronicles the discovery and excavation of the only known campsite of Hernando de Soto's ten-state odyssey in La Florida in the 16th century. The book has three parts: historical background; archaeological excavations at the site; and a retranslation of the narratives relating to the winter camp.
Environmental History of Northeast Florida
Inbunden, 1998
683 kr
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Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape and a variety of cultures in northeast Florida--a region that had been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 years--that were unlike anything the explorers and settlers had ever encountered. This story of the land and …
Indigenous People of the Caribbean
Häftad, 1999
283 kr
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Bringing together 19 Caribbean specialists, this text examines the people of the Caribbean, their social organization, religion, language, lifeways, and contribution to the culture of their modern descendants - to provide a comprehensive reader on Caribbean archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology.
Windover
Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery
Inbunden, 2002
869 kr
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With respect to the bog burial tradition, Florida is unique, producing one of the largest inventories of North American skeletal remains older than 6,000 years. Near Titusville, Florida, in 1984, excavations began at the Windover archaeological site, the New World's largest cemetery of this …
Archaeology of Traditions: Agency and History Before and After Columbia
Av University Press of Florida, Timothy R. Pauketat m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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Coosa: the Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
Av University Press of Florida
Häftad, 2000
283 kr
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Writing about a powerful Native American society at the dawn of European contact, Marvin Smith traces the rise and collapse of the chiefdom of Coosa, located in the Ridge and Valley province of northwestern Georgia and adjacent states.From humble beginnings, Coosa became one of the most important …
Indigenous People of the Caribbean
Inbunden, 1999
697 kr
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Bringing together 19 Caribbean specialists, this text examines the people of the Caribbean, their social organization, religion, language, lifeways, and contribution to the culture of their modern descendants - to provide a comprehensive reader on Caribbean archaelogy, ethnohistory, and ethnology.
Ancient Earthern Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands
Av Robert C. Mainfort, Lynne P. Sullivan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
697 kr
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Ancient moundbuilders and ceremonial sites of prehistoric Amerindians are two explanations for pre-Columbian earthen enclosures refuted by this collection of essays by leading archaeologists. In doing so, the difficulties in interpreting such sites and their diversity of usage are illuminated.
Precolumbian Architecture in Eastern North America
Häftad, 1999
223 kr
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This study of prehistoric North American architecture is organized into three periods: the beginnings of architecture dating from 4000 BC; the beginning of the Christian era; and the period just preceding Columbus' arrival. The architectural chracteristics of 96 pre-Columbian sites are described.
Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola
Inbunden, 1999
697 kr
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This text examines the findings from the area surrounding the city of Pensacola. It provides archaeological and historical information from the Late Colonial period. It discusses the role of the Creek Indians during the Late Colonial period and the emergence of the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians.
Grit-tempered
Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States
Av Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. Sullivan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
600 kr
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This volume documents the lives and work of pioneering women archaeologists in the southeastern USA, from the 1920s to the 1960s, portraying their professional accomplishments in the context of their personal lives. The information was gleaned from interviews and archival research.
Coosa
The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
Inbunden, 2000
697 kr
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This work traces the rise and collapse of the chiefdom of Coosa, located in the Ridge and Valley province of northwestern Georgia and adjacent states. Coosa became one of the most important chiefdoms in the Southeast following contact with three Spanish expeditions in the 16th century.
Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida
The Impact of Colonialism
Inbunden, 2001
697 kr
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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 …
Grit-tempered
Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States
Av Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. Sullivan m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
289 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, portraying their professional accomplishments in the context of their personal lives. Some of the women are working today, and they either wrote their own …
Archaeology of Traditions
Agency and History Before and After Columbus
Inbunden, 2001
697 kr
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Rich with the objects of the day-to-day lives of illiterate or common people in the southeastern United States, this book offers an archaeological reevaluation of history itself: where it is, what it is, and how it came to be. Through clothing, cooking, eating, tool making, and other mundane forms …
Presidio Santa Maria De Galve
A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola
Av University Press of Florida, Judith A. Bense m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
869 kr
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A study of the Pensacola presidio and its fort during the first Spanish colonial period. It provides an inventory of artefacts and interpretations of life among the 18th-century settlers and their evolving interactions with local native populations and with Mobile and Veracruz.
Lost Florida Manuscript of Frank Hamilton Cushing
Av University Press of Florida, Phyllis E. Kolianos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
697 kr
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Frank Hamilton Cushing's ""forgotten"" manuscript, considered by some to be the legendary anthropologist's masterwork, conveys the untamed and undeveloped nature of south Florida in the 1890s and offers new insights into Cushing's significant contributions to Florida archaeology. It describes his …
Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing
Av University Press of Florida, Phyllis E. Kolianos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
582 kr
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These previously unpublished journals by one of the most complex and enigmatic American anthropologists, Frank Hamilton Cushing (1854-1900), offer a dramatically new perspective on his Florida explorations. Recorded during 1895-96 as he traveled the Gulf Coast, these daily personal observations add …
