Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: New Approaches to Ancient Florida -- 1. Archaic Histories beyond the Shell "Heap" on the St. Johns River -- 2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Caloosahatchee Shell Mound Building -- 3. Monumentality beyond Scale: The Elaboration of Mounded Architecture at Crystal River -- 4. New Insights on the Woodland and Mississippi Periods of West-Peninsular Florida -- 5. Radiocarbon Dates and the Late Prehistory of Tampa Bay -- 6. Northwest Florida Woodland Mounds and Middens: The Sacred and Not So Secular -- 7. North Gulf Coastal Archaeology of the Here and Now -- 8. The Modification and Manipulation of Landscape at Fort Center -- 9. Crafting Orange Pottery in Early Florida: Production and Distribution -- 10. It's Ceremonial, Right? Exploring Ritual in Ancient Southern Florida through the Miami Circle -- 11. Woodland and Mississippian in Northwest Florida: Part of the South but Different -- 12. Ritualized Practices of the Suwannee Valley Culture in North Florida -- 13. Ritual at the Mill Cove Complex: Realms beyond the River -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Yet Florida traditionally has been considered peripheral in the study of ancient cultures in North America, despite what it can reveal about social and climate change. The essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is in fact a crucial hub of archaeological inquiry. New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida represents the next wave of southeastern archaeology. Contributors use new data to challenge well-worn models of environmental determinism and localized social contact. Indeed, this volume makes a case for considerable interaction and exchange among Native Floridians and the greater Southeastern United States as seen by the variety of objects of distant origin and mound-building traditions that incorporated extraregional concepts. Themes of monumentality, human alterations of landscapes, the natural environment, ritual and mortuary practices, and coastal adaptations demonstrate the diversity, empirical richness, and broader anthropological significance of Florida's aboriginal past.

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