Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded. Sets a course for exciting new directions in archaeology at the edge of the American South and the broader Caribbean world. Christopher B. Rodning, coeditor of Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States Successfully repositions the story of Florida s native peoples from the peripheries of history and anthropology to center stage. Thomas E. Emerson, author of Cahokia and the Archaeology of PowerGiven its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its...
Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded. Sets a course for exciting new directions in archaeology at the edge of the American South ...
"The French in the Western Hemisphere are best known from their activities in Canada and the Great Lakes. This book provides insights into their interactions with their English and Spanish rivals south of the border."--Charles Ewen, East Carolina University "The first collection of broadly multiregional and multidisciplinary archaeological studies addressing the French colonial experience in the southern United States and the Caribbean. The contributions reveal the diverse ways in which French colonists, African slaves, and Native Americans adjusted to new colonial realities through...
"The French in the Western Hemisphere are best known from their activities in Canada and the Great Lakes. This book provides insights into their inter...
Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the Mississippian southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). This groundbreaking volume lifts the veil of uniformity frequently draped over these regions in the literature, providing the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi-period archaeology in the state. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent researchers in the field, this collection describes and synthesizes the latest data from excavations throughout Florida. In doing so, it...
Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the...
"A richly detailed edited volume that reexamines Mississippian mortuary practices in light of current anthropological and archaeological theoretical perspectives."--C. Cliff Boyd, Radford University
"Shows that instead of reflecting status, mortuary programs actually use the dead to refract, realign, and repurpose the roles and relations of the living."--Alex W. Barker, University of Missouri
The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and...
"A richly detailed edited volume that reexamines Mississippian mortuary practices in light of current anthropological and archaeological theoretica...
An excellent example of applying petrographic and chemical analysis to coarse earthenwares of the African Diaspora in order to examine the social networks created by enslaved laborers on Jamaica within the larger colonial and capitalist systems. . . . A wonderful contribution to Caribbean historical archaeology. H-Net Reviews
Uses pottery fragments and other data to examine an informal, underground economy that existed among slaves, island-wide. Chronicle Review
This is a convincing study, and the findings serve as a strong basis for the consideration of the...
An excellent example of applying petrographic and chemical analysis to coarse earthenwares of the African Diaspora in order to examine the social ...
Using bioarchaeological data gathered from the remains of Apalachee, Timucua, and Guale individuals from mission cemeteries, the author operationalizes this biosocial approach to ethnogenesis to argue that these groups adapted to colonialism in ways that resulted in a new identity, which he identifies as the Florida Seminole. Southwestern Mission Research Center Revista
Clearly and elegantly demonstrates how bioarchaeological data, specifically metric data on dental morphology, can be used to elucidate otherwise obscured patterns of social identity, cultural change, and the...
Using bioarchaeological data gathered from the remains of Apalachee, Timucua, and Guale individuals from mission cemeteries, the author operationa...
A much-needed presentation of the potential contribution of zooarchaeological studies to our overall understanding of both historic and prehistoric cultures in the southeastern United States. No other volume has brought together such a diverse set of faunal studies from the region. Erin Kennedy Thornton, University of Florida Provides an update of recent issues in southeastern faunal studies and a showcase of established and emerging practitioners within the field. Embedded within a long and respected tradition of regional scholarship, this significant volume forges a path forward by...
A much-needed presentation of the potential contribution of zooarchaeological studies to our overall understanding of both historic and prehistoric cu...
A sophisticated application of landscape thought to a recently crafted archaeological record of the St. Johns River. Cheryl Claassen, author of Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley: Archaic Sacred Sites and Rituals Changes the way archaeologists conceptualize the dynamic relationships between hunter-gatherers and cultural landscapes in Native North America. Anybody interested in hunter-gatherer societies, landscape archaeology, ancient monuments, anthropogenic environments, the archaeology and environmental history of Florida and the American South, and the history...
A sophisticated application of landscape thought to a recently crafted archaeological record of the St. Johns River. Cheryl Claassen, author of Fea...
"The French in the Western Hemisphere are best known from their activities in Canada and the Great Lakes. This book provides insights into their interactions with their English and Spanish rivals south of the border."--Charles Ewen, East Carolina University "The first collection of broadly multiregional and multidisciplinary archaeological studies addressing the French colonial experience in the southern United States and the Caribbean. The contributions reveal the diverse ways in which French colonists, African slaves, and Native Americans adjusted to new colonial realities through...
"The French in the Western Hemisphere are best known from their activities in Canada and the Great Lakes. This book provides insights into their inter...
During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous people became "Indios," their language, appearance, and identity transformed by the domination imposed by a foreign model that Christianized and "civilized" them. Yet El Chorro de Maita retained many of its indigenous characteristics.
In this volume--one of the first in English to examine and document an archaeological site in Cuba--Roberto Valcarcel Rojas analyzes the construction of colonial authority and the various attitudes and...
During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous...
