Drawing on the most recent historical and archaeological research, "First Encounters" describes the period of early Spanish contact with New World peoples. This series of essays reports original research mounted over the last ten years, a decade of remarkable breakthroughs in knowledge about significant events in the first decades after 1492. In ...
The missions of Spanish Florida are one of American history's best kept secrets. Between 1565 and 1763, more than 150 missions with names like San Francisco and San Antonio dotted the landscape from south Florida to the Chesapeake Bay. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, much conducted in the last 25 years, Milanich offers a vivid ...
America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States in the 1560s. Indians, French, and Spaniards vied to profit from European attempts to colonize the land Juan Ponce de Leon had named la Florida. Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere founded a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River ...
Who are Florida's Siminole and Miccosukee Indians and where did they come from? This book explores their culture through information provided by archaeology, ethnography, historical documents and the words of the Indians themselves.
In 1873, Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and New York "Sun" journalist, set out on a westward journey aboard the newly completed transcontinental railroad. Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings' portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East.
This record of pre-Columbian Florida relates the 12,000-year story of the native peoples who inhabited the state. Using information gathered by archaeological investigations, many carried out since 1980, Jerald Milanich describes the indigenous cultures and explains why they developed as they did. Milanich introduces the material heritage of the ...
"Tacachale" means "to light a fire" and refers to an Indian ritual that the Timucuans used to minimise change in their way of life. Here, it symbolises the efforts of the aborigines of Florida and southeastern Georgia to deal with the destruction of their cultures during European colonisation.
Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable because he played a major role in each of the ventures - first, in 1562, as second in command during the founding of the ill-fated Charlesport, then as commander for the establishment of Fort Caroline on Florida's St. Johns ...
Hernando de Soto, the Spanish conquistador, is legendary in the United States today: counties, cars, caverns, shopping malls and bridges all bear his name. This work explains the historical importance of his expedition, a journey that began at Tampa Bay in 1539 and ended in Arkansas in 1543. De Soto's explorations, the first European penetration ...
This is the story of the Timucua, an American Indian people who thrived for centuries in the southeast portion of what is now the United States of America.Timucua groups lived in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia, a region occupied by native people for thirteen millennia. They were among the first of the American Indians to come in contact ...
Chronicles the discovery and excavation of the only known campsite of Hernando de Soto's ten-state odyssey in La Florida in the 16th century. The book has three parts: historical background; archaeological excavations at the site; and a retranslation of the narratives relating to the winter camp.
Bringing together 19 Caribbean specialists, this text examines the people of the Caribbean, their social organization, religion, language, lifeways, and contribution to the culture of their modern descendants - to provide a comprehensive reader on Caribbean archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology.
When the conquistadors arrived in Florida as many as 350,000 native Americans lived there. Two and a half centuries later, Florida's Indians were gone. This text focuses on these native peoples and their lives, and attempts to explain what happened to them.
Before he was a New York congressman and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Amos Jay Cummings covered bruins and buzzards, rednecks and racists, murderers and mosquitoes, rich soils and poor souls, for the New York Sun. In 1874, journalist Cummings was among only a handful of white people to make their way down through the Florida ...
Integrating archaeological and historical information, this text tells the story of the native Indian societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee and Creeks.
This text offers a combination of archaeology and history to tell the story of the Apalachee Indians of northwest Florida and their Spanish conquerors. The book portrays the dwellings, daily life, religious practices, social structures and recreation activities of the mission.
This work gathers literature on fieldwork at the sites of Crystal River (in Citrus County) and Mount Royal (on the St Johns River). The articles include descriptions of the artefacts found at each site and an introduction places the monuments in context, and addresses surrounding controversies.
Focusing on the pre-Columbian south east of the United States, the authors draw on north Florida archaeological excavations and site surveys to reveal the Weeden Island culture and its ceramics. The McKeithen site, a multi-mound village site, provides information on native society culture.
In eighteenth-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Mark Hauser uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended plantation boundaries."An Archaeology of Black Markets" utilizes both documentary and ...
A study of the Pensacola presidio and its fort during the first Spanish colonial period. It provides an inventory of artefacts and interpretations of life among the 18th-century settlers and their evolving interactions with local native populations and with Mobile and Veracruz.
Ancient moundbuilders and ceremonial sites of prehistoric Amerindians are two explanations for pre-Columbian earthen enclosures refuted by this collection of essays by leading archaeologists. In doing so, the difficulties in interpreting such sites and their diversity of usage are illuminated.
The second half of a two-volume work incorporating archaeological and historical investigation, and studying the assimilation and eventual destruction of the indigenous Timucuan societies of interior Spanish Florida near St Augustine.
Applying the legend of the "stranger king" to Caonabo, the mythologized Taino chief of the Hispaniola settlement Columbus invaded in 1492, Keegan examines how myths come to resonate as history - created by the chaotic interactions of the individuals who lived the events of the past as well as those who write and read about them. The "stranger king ...
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Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
