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List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Foreword xiii Preface xvii 1. The Face of South 1 Climate 2 Physiographic Regions 5 Plant Associations 16 Marine Systems 18 Resources 20 Stochastic Factors 23 FLORIDA 2. The Evolution of the Landscape 28 The Postglacial Sea-level Rise 30 The Climatic Sequence and Vegetation 43 OF The Edge of the Tropics 47 Summary 48 3. Previous Archaeological Research 50 The Discoveries on and Frank Hamilton Cushing 54 Clarence B. Moore 56 PRESS Ale& Hrdliçka and the Search for Early Humans 58 The 1920s to 1940s 60 John M. Goggin in South Florida 62 Research since the Second World War 65 4. Material Culture of the Glades Area 72 Ceramics 73 Shell Artifacts 93 Bone Artifacts 108 Stone Artifacts 117 WoodenUNIVERSITY Artifacts 122 5.© Time and Space in South Florida 123 Defining theAreas and Subareas 123 Building the Glades Pottery Sequence 134 Dating the Glades Sequence 141 The Prehistory of South Florida 144 6. The Impact of Conquest 161 Ethnography 162 Depopulation 169 The Spanish Indians 175 Seminole and Mikasuki Indians 178 Historic Period Sites 183 Summary 186 7. The Bear Lake Site 187 Excavations 190 Summary 239 8. Other Test Excavations 241 Onion Key 241 The 250 Walter Hamilton Place 259 Hamilton Garden Patch 261 263 265 Panther Mound 267 FLORIDA Site 271 9. Settlement 274 OF Settlement Types 274 Site Size and Settlement Size 279 Site Distribution 280 Temporal Distributions 282 Sites and Seasonality 287 PRESS Site Plans 290 Structures 292 10. Subsistence 294 Faunal Collections from South Florida Sites 294 Comments on the Faunal Studies 298 Mollusca 304 Floral Resources 306 Water 309 Achievement of the Coastal Adaptation 311 11.UNIVERSITY Social Organization 313 © Chiefdoms and the Calusa 314 The Calusa Hierarchy 315 Archaeological Correlates 319 Wooden Artifacts and Religion 326 12. Continuity and Change 328 The Cultural Stream 328 What They Ate 332 Where They Lived 333 Relation to Neighbors 335 Conquest and Decline 336 Appendix. South Florida Vertebrate Faunal Lists 339 Bibliography 349 Index 393

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