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archaic freshwater shell mounds and social landscapes of the St. Johns River, Florida
xii, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
This book provides a challenging interpretation of ancient hunter-gatherer societies along the St. Johns River in northeast Florida and reveals that these mounds were not just garbage dumps, but rather intentionally constructed sacred mounds of immense significance to their creators. The book presents a new theoretical framework for investigating shell mounds as places of history-making through daily living, ceremonies, and burial ritual.
Introduction: Archaic shell mounds on the St. Johns River -- 1. Shell mounds and hunter-gatherers in prehistory -- 2. Hunter-gatherers, landscapes, and histories -- 3. Ecological histories in the Middle Holocene -- 4. The traditions of Mount Taylor communities -- 5. Mount Taylor places in time and space -- 6. Histories inscribed in place -- 7. Mount Taylor social histories -- Appendix. Mount Taylor- and select Orange-period radiocarbon assays from shell sites on the middle St. Johns River.
"A Florida Quincentennial book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.