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MEDALS OF CONQUEST IN CALUSA FLORIDA

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Date Issued:
1981
Summary:
An interesting collection of small wooden or metal objects, bearing a design which has not yet been interpreted satisfactorily, has been found at sites scattered throughout the Calusa and Okeechobee subareas of the Glades archaeological area and extending northward into the Kissimmee Area. These objects, which usually bear circles and-or a cross on their upper zone and "teardrops" and what looks like a stylized mouth on their lower zone, lend support to the contention that the 16th Century Calusa were a conquest society. This in turn casts further doubt upon the utility of traditional classificatory systems in defining the nature of an individual culture. Specifically, the data support the belief that the shift from egalitarianism to stratification is more significant than the shift from kinship control to territorial control.
Title: MEDALS OF CONQUEST IN CALUSA FLORIDA.
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Name(s): MCGOUN, WILLIAM ELLIOTT.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Sears, William H., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1981
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 68 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: An interesting collection of small wooden or metal objects, bearing a design which has not yet been interpreted satisfactorily, has been found at sites scattered throughout the Calusa and Okeechobee subareas of the Glades archaeological area and extending northward into the Kissimmee Area. These objects, which usually bear circles and-or a cross on their upper zone and "teardrops" and what looks like a stylized mouth on their lower zone, lend support to the contention that the 16th Century Calusa were a conquest society. This in turn casts further doubt upon the utility of traditional classificatory systems in defining the nature of an individual culture. Specifically, the data support the belief that the shift from egalitarianism to stratification is more significant than the shift from kinship control to territorial control.
Identifier: 14051 (digitool), FADT14051 (IID), fau:10868 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1981.
Subject(s): Calusa Indians--Antiquities
Florida--Antiquities
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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