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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459474903321

Autore

Hrdlička Aleš <1869-1943.>

Titolo

The anthropology of Florida [[electronic resource] /] / Aleš Hrdlička

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8173-8465-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Classics in southeastern archaeology

Disciplina

975.9/01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Florida - Antiquities

Seminole Indians - Antiquities

Electronic books.

Florida Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Originally published: Deland, Fla. : Florida State Historical Society, 1922, in series: Publications of the Florida State Historical Society ; no. 1.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. INDIAN REMAINS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN COAST OF FLORIDA; The Ten Thousand Islands Region; Indian Remains from Fort Myers to Key Marco; Key Marco Southward; Royal Palm Hammock; Lossman's River to the Southern Extremity of the Peninsula; General Impressions; Fort Myers to Lake Okechobee and East Coast; The Seminoles; II. ANTHROPOLOGY OF FLORIDA; Peopling and Tribes of Florida; Numbers, Antiquity; Physical Characteristics of the Floridians in Records; Physical Anthropology, Former Contributions; III. NEW OBSERVATIONS; Deformation; Massiveness; Disease; Unity of Type; The Skull

The Long BonesSummary; Detailed Measurements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas.     This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical anthropology, and aboriginal history, it also contains Hrdlicka's analysis of every human bone from Florida that he could find in collections. He made remarkably accurate observations about the general physical



types of prehistoric Florida Indians and how they compared to nativ