by Ales Hrdlicka introduction by Jeffrey M. Mitchem
University of Alabama Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-8173-5359-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8465-4 Library of Congress Classification E78.F6H73 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 975.901
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas
This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical anthropology, and aboriginal history, it also contains Hrdlicka’s analysis of every human bone from Florida that he could find in collections. He made remarkably accurate observations about the general physical types of prehistoric Florida Indians and how they compared to native peoples of surrounding regions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Aleš Hrdlicka, M.D., (1869–1943) was a physical anthropologist and founder of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and he was its editor from 1918 until 1942.
Jeffrey M. Mitchem is a research archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey who edited and introduced both The West and Central Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore and The East Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore.
REVIEWS
“Perhaps Hrdlicka’s most important contribution was that he provided the first systematic population estimate of south Florida based on the number of sites and the amount of labor required for their construction. These techniques of population estimation are still used today by archaeologists.”
—Randolph J. Widmer, University of Houston
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
I
INDIAN REMAINS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN COAST OF FLORIDA
The Ten Thousand Islands Region
Indian Remains from Fort Myers to Key Marco
Punta Rasa
Estero Keys
Naples
Gordon Pass
Weeks Place
Key Marco
Caximbas
Horr's Island
Goodland Point
Cape Romaine
Addison's Place
Key Marco Southward
Whitney River
Buttonwood Key
Shell Key
Dismal Key
Pumpkin Key
Gomez Key
Fakahatchee, Thompson Place, Ellis Place
Ferguson River
Aliens River
Chokaloskee Island
Turner's River
Barnes River
New River
Chatham Bend
Miller's Point
Chevalier Place
Gopher Key
Lossman's River and Key
Royal Palm Hammock
Lossman's River to the Southern Extremity of the Peninsula
General Impressions
Fort Myers to Lake Okechobee and East Coast
The Seminoles
II
ANTHROPOLOGY OF FLORIDA
Peopling and Tribes of Florida
Numbers, Antiquity
Physical Characteristics of the Floridians in Records