Iconography and wetsite archaeology of Florida's watery realms /

Frank Hamilton Cushing's 1896 excavations at Key Marco revealed astonishing carved and painted objects of wood rarely seen by archaeologists. The chapters in this book explore new discoveries and revisit existing museum collections, asking new questions or employing innovative analytical techni...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wheeler, Ryan J. (Editor), Ostapkowicz, Joanna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2019]
Series:Ripley P. Bullen series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Lee A. Newsom and Vernon James Knight
  • From watery realms / Ryan Wheeler and Joanna Ostapkowicz
  • Mounds, watery places, and death in South Florida : the Fort Center Mound Pond Complex / Daniel M. Seinfeld
  • Spring surprise : the lessons learned from and the unexpected results of the Chassahowitzka Headsprings Archaeological Assessment and Monitoring Project / Michael K. Faught and Michael A. Arbuthnot
  • Wood preservation dilemmas of Florida's prehistoric saltwater sites : Key Marco and Weedon Island / Phyllis E. Kolianos
  • Canoe caching at transit points : inferring Florida's ancient navigation routes using archaeology and ethnohistory / Julia B. Duggins
  • The Pineland Site Complex : a southwest Florida coastal wetsite / Karen J. Walker, William H. Marquardt, Lee A. Newsom, and Merald Clark
  • Fort Center's wooden bestiary : early impressions from a reanalysis / S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner
  • The Padgett figurine and other pre-Columbian wooden statuettes from Florida / William H. Marquardt
  • Owls, otters and pelicans in watery realms / Joanna Ostapkowicz and Ryan Wheeler.