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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Previous Title:Weeding, Spring 2013:
Other Authors: Wallis, Neill J.
Randall, Asa R.
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Florida > Antiquities.
Mississippian culture > Florida.
Woodland people > Florida.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Florida.
Kitchen-middens > Florida.
Florida > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
Kitchen-middens.
Mississippian culture.
Woodland Indians.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:ix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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. Monés, 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.