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Native and Spanish New Worlds

Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast

Edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Haecker

University of Arizona Press, 2013

Spanish-led entradas—expeditions bent on the exploration and control of new territories—took place throughout the sixteenth century in what is now the southern United States. Although their impact was profound, both locally and globally, detailed analyses of these encounters are notably scarce. Focusing on several major themes—social, economic, political, military, environmental, and demographic—the contributions gathered here explore not only the cultures and peoples involved in these unique engagements but also the wider connections and disparities between these borderlands and the colonial world in general during the first century of Native–European contact in North America. Bringing together research from both the southwestern and southeastern United States, this book offers a comparative synthesis of Native–European contacts and their consequences in both regions. The chapters also engage at different scales of analysis, from locally based research to macro-level evaluations, using documentary, paleoclimatic, and regional archaeological data.

No other volume assembles such a wide variety of archaeological, ethnohistorical, environmental, and biological information to elucidate the experience of Natives and Europeans in the early colonial world of Northern New Spain, and the global implications of entradas during this formative period in borderlands history.
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The Anthropology of Florida

Aleš Hrdlicka

University of Alabama Press, 2007

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.
 
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The East Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

Clarence Bloomfield Moore, edited by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

University of Alabama Press, 1999

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

A foundational archaeological record of the Indigenous cultures and ancient landscapes of Florida's eastern coast.

The East Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore, edited and introduced by Jeffrey M. Mitchem, is an essential collection of pioneering archaeological research documenting the prehistoric cultures of Florida's eastern coast. Bringing together seventeen of Moore's landmark publications originally issued between 1892 and 1903, this volume preserves the results of extensive explorations conducted along the Atlantic coast of Florida, from the Georgia border southward to Lake Okeechobee, with particular emphasis on the St. Johns River and its tributaries.

Through detailed descriptions, illustrations, and field observations, Moore records the excavation of burial mounds, shell heaps, sand mounds, and Indigenous habitation sites that yielded a wealth of artifacts, including pottery, tools, ornaments, and human remains. His investigations provided some of the earliest systematic archaeological documentation in Florida and helped establish the foundations for understanding regional cultural chronologies and settlement patterns. Many of the sites he examined have since been altered or destroyed, making these reports an irreplaceable record of Florida's archaeological heritage.

Enhanced by Mitchem's scholarly introduction and analysis of subsequent research, this volume connects Moore's groundbreaking work to modern archaeological scholarship. It remains a foundational resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and anyone interested in the Indigenous history and prehistoric cultures of East Florida.

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The West and Central Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

Clarence Bloomfield Moore, edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

University of Alabama Press, 1999

This compilation of Moore's publications on western and central Florida provides all of his archaeological data on the region's mounds and prehistoric canals in a single volume.

The name Clarence B. Moore is familiar to every archaeologist interested in the southeastern United States. This amateur archaeologist's
numerous scientific expeditions to the region resulted in dozens of well-illustrated publications, the value of which increases daily as many of the sites he investigated continue to be destroyed by modern development.

Moore invested considerable time and effort exploring Florida's archaeological sites, devoting more pages of published reports and articles to Florida than to any other state. Because of the wealth of material on Florida, Moore's Florida expedition publications have been
collected in three separate volumes, all published within the Classics in Southeastern Archaeology series. The thirteen papers reproduced in this
volume present the results of Moore's research in West and Central Florida.

Moore's first and last expeditions were to Florida and spanned almost fifty years of archaeological investigations. Following the eastern river drainages to central and western Florida, in 1900 Moore concentrated his efforts along the Florida Gulf Coast, spurred by the exciting
discoveries of Frank Hamilton Cushing at Key Marco in 1896. Although this region is rich in mound sites, many sites located by Moore in the early
years of this century had already been destroyed by construction and lime processing. In addition to mound groupings—some containing masses of skeletal remains—Moore found a number of sites connected by a network of prehistoric canals. Several of the sites located by Moore contained European trade goods and have been used to trace the early wanderings of the conquistadores in the New World.

Moore's early work on the Florida Gulf Coast succeeded in preserving much of the archaeological record in this area. He is to be credited with remarkable insights concerning mound and earthwork construction, artifact trade networks, and chronology development.


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