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  • - Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucia and La Florida
    af Kathryn L. Ness
    1.023,95 kr.

  • af William F. Keegan
    288,95 kr.

  • af Gregory D. Wilson
    1.118,95 kr.

    Using fresh evidence and non-traditional ideas, the contributing authors to Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (AD 1000-1600). They discuss signs of migrations, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past.

  • - Sustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation
    af Mary Elizabeth Fitts
    1.073,95 kr.

  • - An Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740-1780
    af John M. Chenoweth
    1.018,95 kr.

    Inspired by the Quaker ideals of simplicity, equality, and peace, a group of white planters formed a community in the British Virgin Islands during the eighteenth century. Yet they lived in a slave society, and nearly all their members held enslaved people. In this book, John Chenoweth examines how the community navigated the contradictions of Quakerism and plantation ownership.

  • - Exploring the Spaces in Between
    af James A. Delle
    1.133,95 kr.

    Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them - slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment - have been studied extensively. This volume turns the focus to the places and times where the rules of the plantation system did not always apply, including the interstitial spaces that linked enslaved Africans with their neighbours at other plantations.

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    1.143,95 kr.

    In this volume, Ivan Roksandic and an international team of researchers trace population movement throughout the Caribbean, specifically to Cuba. Through analysis of early agriculture, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, and more, they present a new theory of mainland migration to Cuba and the Greater Antilles.

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    1.278,95 kr.

    While previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period.

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    368,95 kr.

    Brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French colonization. Specific contributions explore foodways, ceramics, plantations, architecture, and colonial interactions with Africans and Native Americans.

  • - Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs
    af Jason O'Donoughue
    928,95 kr.

    Investigates the importance of natural springs to ancient Floridians. Throughout their history, Florida's springs have been gathering places for far-flung peoples. Jason O'Donoughue finds that springs began flowing several millennia earlier than previously thought, serving as sites of habitation, burials, ritualized feasting, and monument building for Florida's earliest peoples.

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    1.023,95 kr.

    "The Moundville archaeological site, located in Alabama, is well-known as a prime example of a Mississippian mound complex. Building upon the 1998 volume 'Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom,' this volume closes the information gap and presents the results of ongoing and multifaceted research into the life of the people of the Moundville chiefdom"--Provided by publishe

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    1.059,95 kr.

    Uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America's deep past, representing a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and helping to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America.

  • af Christina M. Friberg
    1.153,95 kr.

    Investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America's Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. Christina Friberg examines the cultural give-and-take Audrey inhabitants experienced between new Cahokian customs and old Woodland ways of life.

  • - Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate
     
    1.046,95 kr.

    Examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation, helping document the under-represented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire.

  • - Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America
     
    1.186,95 kr.

    Brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages, providing insights into the sixteenth-century indigenous communities of North America and the colonizing efforts of Spain.

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    1.628,95 kr.

    Uses archaeological and historical evidence to reconstruct daily life at Betty's Hope plantation on the island of Antigua, one of the largest sugar plantations in the Caribbean. The book demonstrates the rich information that multidisciplinary studies can provide about the effects of sugarcane agriculture on the region and its people.

  • - First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast
     
    348,95 kr.

    Compiles all the major writings of Spanish explorers in the area between 1513 and 1566. Including transcriptions of the original Spanish documents as well as English translations, this volume presents - in their own words - the experiences and reactions of Spaniards who came to Florida with Juan Ponce de Leon, Panfilo de Narvaez, Hernando de Soto, and Pedro Menendez de Aviles.

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    413,95 kr.

    A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the Moundville region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations.

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    392,95 kr.

    Presents fourteen in-depth case studies that incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast.

  • - Adaptation, Conflict, and Change
    af Dale L. Hutchinson
    341,95 kr.

    An exploration of the role of human adaptation along the Gulf coast of Florida and the influence of coastal foraging on several indigenous Florida populations. This location includes remnants of a prehistoric Indian village and a massive ancient burial mound, known as the Palmer Site.

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    1.158,95 kr.

    Very little research has been published on the Archaic period shell mounds in the Middle Cumberland River Valley. Demonstrating that nearly forty such sites exist, this volume presents the results of recent surveys, excavations, and laboratory work as well as fresh examinations of past investigations that have been difficult for scholars to access.

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    1.073,95 kr.

    The emergence of village societies profoundly transformed social relations in every part of the world where such communities formed. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, this volume explores the development of villages in eastern North America from the Late Archaic period to the eighteenth century.

  • af Thomas J. Pluckhahn
    1.088,95 kr.

    Explores how native peoples of the Southeastern United States cooperated to form large and permanent early villages, using the site of Crystal River on Florida's Gulf Coast as a case study. Thomas Pluckhahn and Victor Thompson reanalyze previous excavations and conduct new field investigations to tell the whole story of Crystal River from its beginnings to its decline.

  • - A Florida Paleoindian Site
    af I. Randolph Daniel
    409,95 kr.

    Discovered during construction of the I-75 corridor northeast of Tampa, the site of Harney Flats was a turning point in the archaeology of the southeastern United States. Harney Flats describes the excavation, which was praised for its state-of-the-art strategy and interpretive methods, and details the objects uncovered and what they reveal about the lives of the people who used them.

  • - Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology
     
    1.130,95 kr.

    Focusing on the daily concerns and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate. Instead of dividing archaeological work by time periods or artifact types, the essays in this volume unite separate areas of research through the theme of the everyday.

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    437,95 kr.

    Originally prepared as a report for the National Park Service in 1988, Griffin's work places the human occupation of the Everglades within the context of South Florida's unique natural environmental systems. He documents, for the first time, the little known but relatively extensive precolumbian occupation of the interior portion of the region and surveys the material culture of the Glades area.

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    341,95 kr.

    Using fresh evidence and non-traditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). These essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in over thirty years.

  • af James S. Dunbar
    409,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

    For more than 130 years, research aimed at understanding Paleoindian occupation of the coastal Southeast has progressed at a glacial pace. In this volume, James Dunbar suggests that the most important archaeological and paleontological resources in the Americas still remain undiscovered in Florida's karst river basins.

  • - Community and History in Late Archaic Florida
    af Zackary I. Gilmore
    1.167,95 kr.

    Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BC, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late Archaic community of Silver Glen - one of Florida's most elaborate shell mound complexes - integrated people and places from throughout Florida by staging large-scale feasts and other public events.

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