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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826750603321

Titolo

New histories of Pre-Columbian Florida / / edited by Neill J. Wallis and Asa R. Randall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5014-6

0-8130-4897-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Ripley P. Bullen Series

Disciplina

975.9/01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Florida - Antiquities

Mississippian culture - Florida

Woodland Indians - Florida

Excavations (Archaeology) - Florida

Florida Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: New approaches to ancient Florida / Neill J. Wallis and Asa R. Randall -- Archaic histories beyond the shell "heap" on the St. Johns River / Asa R. Randall, Kenneth E. Sassaman, Zackary I. Gilmore, Meggan E. Blessing, and Jason M. O'Donoughue -- Deconstructing and reconstructing Caloosahatchee Shell Mound building / Theresa Schober -- Monumentality beyond scale: the elaboration of mounded architecture at Crystal River / Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Victor D. Thompson -- New insights on the woodland and Mississippian periods of west-peninsular Florida / George M. Luer -- Radiocarbon dates and the late prehistory of Tampa Bay / Robert J. Austin, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Brent R. Weisman -- Northwest Florida woodland mounds and middens: the sacred and not so secular / Michael Russo, Craig Dengel, and Jeffrey Shanks -- North gulf coastal archaeology of the here and now / Kenneth E. Sassaman, Paulette S. McFadden, Micah P. Mones, Andrea Palmiotto, and Asa R. Randall -- The modification and manipulation of landscape at Fort Center / Victor D. Thompson and Thomas J. Pluckhahn -- Crafting orange pottery in early Florida:



production and distribution / Rebecca Saunders and Margaret K. Wrenn -- It's ceremonial, right? Exploring ritual in ancient southern Florida through the Miami Circle / Ryan J. Wheeler and Robert S. Carr -- Woodland and Mississippian in Northwest Florida: part of the south but different / Nancy Marie White -- Ritualized practices of the Suwannee Valley culture in North Florida / Neill J. Wallis -- Ritual at the Mill Cove complex: realms beyond the river / Keith Ashley and Vicki Rolland.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume aims to bring the archaeological study of Florida's Pre-Columbian past up to date, using new techniques, technologies and data to reveal that the Pre-Columbian natives were not isolated and environmentally segregated, as was previously thought.