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Author McGoun, William

Title Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (149 pages)
Contents Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: The Theory and the Area; 1. Caciques and Conquistadors: Aboriginal Peoples in the Menndez Period; 2. On the Trail of Big Game: The Paleoindian Presence in South Florida; 3. Living Off the Land: The Enduring Hunting and Gathering Societies; 4. Earthworks and Effigies: Hopewellian-Related Societies Around the Big Lake; 5. Down to the Sea and the Shells: The Shift of Power to Southwest Florida; 6. The Road to Extinction: Aboriginal Peoples after the Menndez Period; Bibliography; Index
Summary To many people in South Florida, an "oldtimer" is someone who has lived there for more than five years. Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida considers the culture history of the real South Florida "oldtimers" dating from 10,000 B.C. through the invasion by Europeans and analyzes the ways in which they adapted to their environment through timeor caused their environment to adapt to them. South Florida is a biological island, its plant communities circumscribed by the southern limits of frost. Its peoples were distinct from those to the north and were less studied by scholars
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-135) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- Florida -- Antiquities.
Antiquities
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
SUBJECT Florida -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049217
Subject Florida
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92040833
ISBN 9780817384104
0817384103
0585081786
9780585081786