Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.