Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Face of South Florida -- Climate -- Physiographic Regions -- Plant Associations -- Marine Systems -- Resources -- Stochastic Factors -- 2. The Evolution of the Landscape -- The Postglacial Sea-level Rise -- The Climatic Sequence and Vegetation -- The Edge of the Tropics -- Summary -- 3. Previous Archaeological Research -- The Discoveries on Key Marco and Frank Hamilton Cushing -- Clarence B. Moore -- Aleš Hrdlička and the Search for Early Humans -- The 1920s to 1940s -- John M. Goggin in South Florida -- Research since the Second World War -- 4. Material Culture of the Glades Area -- Ceramics -- Shell Artifacts -- Bone Artifacts -- Stone Artifacts -- Wooden Artifacts -- 5. Time and Space in South Florida -- Defining the Areas and Subareas -- Building the Glades Pottery Sequence -- Dating the Glades Sequence -- The Prehistory of South Florida -- 6. The Impact of Conquest -- Ethnography -- Depopulation -- The Spanish Indians -- Seminole and Mikasuki Indians -- Historic Period Sites -- Summary -- 7. The Bear Lake Site -- Excavations -- Summary -- 8. Other Test Excavations -- Onion Key -- The Turner River Site -- Walter Hamilton Place -- Hamilton Garden Patch -- Rookery Mound -- Cane Patch -- Panther Mound -- Anhinga Trail Site -- 9. Settlement -- Settlement Types -- Site Size and Settlement Size -- Site Distribution -- Temporal Distributions -- Sites and Seasonality -- Site Plans -- Structures -- 10. Subsistence -- Faunal Collections from South Florida Sites -- Comments on the Faunal Studies -- Mollusca -- Floral Resources -- Water -- Achievement of the Coastal Adaptation -- 11. Social Organization -- Chiefdoms and the Calusa -- The Calusa Hierarchy -- Archaeological Correlates -- Wooden Artifacts and Religion
12. Continuity and Change -- The Cultural Stream -- What They Ate -- Where They Lived -- Relation to Neighbors -- Conquest and Decline -- Appendix. South Florida Vertebrate Faunal Lists -- Bibliography -- Index
