New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-68340-073-8
Verlag: University of Florida Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Presenting the most current research and thinking on prehistoric archaeology in the Southeast, this volume reexamines some of Florida’s most important Paleoindian sites and discusses emerging technologies and methods that are necessary knowledge for archaeologists working in the region today.

Using new analytical methods, contributors explore fresh perspectives on sites including Old Vero, Guest Mammoth, Page-Ladson, and Ray Hole Spring. They discuss the role of hydrology?rivers, springs, and coastal plain drainages?in the history of Florida’s earliest inhabitants. They address both the research challenges and the unique preservation capacity of the state’s many underwater sites, suggesting solutions for analyzing corroded lithic artifacts and submerged midden deposits.

Looking towards future research, archaeologists discuss strategies for finding additional pre-Clovis and Clovis-era sites offshore on the southeastern continental shelf. The search is important, these essays show, because Florida’s prehistoric sites hold critical data for the debate over the nature and timing of the first human colonization of the Western Hemisphere.

A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

David K. Thulman is professorial lecturer of anthropology at George Washington University and president of the Archaeological Research Cooperative, Inc.