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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455453303321

Autore

McGoun William E. <1937->

Titolo

Prehistoric peoples of South Florida [[electronic resource] /] / William E. McGoun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8173-8410-3

0-585-08178-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Disciplina

975.9/01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Florida - Antiquities

Electronic books.

Florida Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-135) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: The Theory and the Area; 1. Caciques and Conquistadors: Aboriginal Peoples in the Menéndez Period; 2. On the Trail of Big Game: The Paleoindian Presence in South Florida; 3. Living Off the Land: The Enduring Hunting and Gathering Societies; 4. Earthworks and Effigies: Hopewellian-Related Societies Around the Big Lake; 5. Down to the Sea and the Shells: The Shift of Power to Southwest Florida; 6. The Road to Extinction: Aboriginal Peoples after the Menéndez Period; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

To many people in South Florida, and ""oldtimer"" is someone who has lived there for more than five years. Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida considers the culture history of the real South Florida ""oldtimers"" dating from 10,000 B.C. through the invasion by Europeans and analyzes the ways in which they adapted to their environment through time-or caused their environment to adapt to them.  South Florida is a biological island, its plant communities circumscribed by the southern limits of frost. Its peoples were distinct from those to the north and were less studied