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Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Florida--Antiquities.
Mississippian culture--Florida.
Woodland Indians--Florida.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida.
Kitchen-middens--Florida.
Florida--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Wallis, Neill J., editor.
Randall, Asa R., editor.

Notes:

"A Florida quincentennial book" Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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. Mon©♭s, 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.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

ISBN:

0813049369 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813049366 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857740648

LCCN:

2013044109

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)