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Prehistoric mortuary practices in the Everglades cultural area, Florida
Title
Prehistoric mortuary practices in the Everglades cultural area, Florida.
Creator
Felmley, Amy S., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
Archaeological data on mortuary practices in the Everglades cultural area of southeastern Florida from the Late Archaic (2000 B.C.-500 B.C.) through the Formative period (500 B.C.-A.D. 1750) are synthesized in order to document development of the chiefdom organization known ethnographically for the historic Tequesta Indians. Site and burial data are drawn from published and unpublished documents and analyzed using Binford's (1971) models which predict sociopolitical organization from mortuary...
Show moreArchaeological data on mortuary practices in the Everglades cultural area of southeastern Florida from the Late Archaic (2000 B.C.-500 B.C.) through the Formative period (500 B.C.-A.D. 1750) are synthesized in order to document development of the chiefdom organization known ethnographically for the historic Tequesta Indians. Site and burial data are drawn from published and unpublished documents and analyzed using Binford's (1971) models which predict sociopolitical organization from mortuary evidence for individual status and rank. Results indicate the presence of a non-egalitarian social structure with inherited status in the Late Archaic period followed by a ranked sociopolitical organization in the Glades II-III periods.
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Date Issued
1991
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14706
Subject Headings
Indians of North America--Florida, Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites
Format
Document (PDF)
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIANS FROM THE FORT CENTER SITE (OSTEOLOGY, PALEOPATHOLOGY, FLORIDA)
Title
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIANS FROM THE FORT CENTER SITE (OSTEOLOGY, PALEOPATHOLOGY, FLORIDA).
Creator
SHAIVITZ, PATRICIA MILLER., Florida Atlantic University, Iscan, M. Yasar, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
The prehistoric Florida Indians are biologically the least known group among the indigenous peoples North American. The purpose of this investigation is to establish a biological profile for a prehistoric Indian population excavated from Fort Center. The skeletal remains analyzed include over 100 individuals. The site is dated 450 B.C. to 1700 A.D. The skeletal remains are from the period 200 A.D. to 600-800 A.D. Archaeological interpretation of Fort Center indicates that it was a ceremonial...
Show moreThe prehistoric Florida Indians are biologically the least known group among the indigenous peoples North American. The purpose of this investigation is to establish a biological profile for a prehistoric Indian population excavated from Fort Center. The skeletal remains analyzed include over 100 individuals. The site is dated 450 B.C. to 1700 A.D. The skeletal remains are from the period 200 A.D. to 600-800 A.D. Archaeological interpretation of Fort Center indicates that it was a ceremonial complex during the 200 A.D. to 600-800 A.D. period, and therefore at least certain people residing there may be presumed to have occupied some high social status. The absence of major bone diseases confirms the archaeological interpretation, and provides a data base for future comparison of other Florida prehistoric populations.
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Date Issued
1986
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14294
Subject Headings
Indians of North America--Florida--Physical characteristics, Fort Center Site (Fla), Indians of North America--Florida--Health and hygiene
Format
Document (PDF)
Disease and population ecology in southeast Florida
Title
Disease and population ecology in southeast Florida.
Creator
Winland, Kenneth John., Florida Atlantic University, Iscan, M. Yasar, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
The Highland Beach Skeletal Collection (recovered from site 8PB11, dating between AD 600-1200) represents one of the largest skeletal collections in Florida, with over 120 individuals. This study presents an analysis of the pathological conditions as evidenced by the hard tissue remains, as well as demographic models of this population in relation to other archaeological aboriginal groups in central and south Florida. Paleodemographic reconstructions indicate that the Highland Beach...
Show moreThe Highland Beach Skeletal Collection (recovered from site 8PB11, dating between AD 600-1200) represents one of the largest skeletal collections in Florida, with over 120 individuals. This study presents an analysis of the pathological conditions as evidenced by the hard tissue remains, as well as demographic models of this population in relation to other archaeological aboriginal groups in central and south Florida. Paleodemographic reconstructions indicate that the Highland Beach population were foragers, with high life expectancy and low infant mortality. Paleopathological analysis reveals the presence of several infectious conditions, as well as degenerative and hematologic conditions. The incidence of treponematosis in this group is perhaps one of the highest in pre-contact Florida and the southeast.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14933
Subject Headings
Paleopathology--Florida, Indians of North America--Diseases, Indians of North America--Florida--Health and hygiene
Format
Document (PDF)
ROLLING OAKS II SITE (8 BD 73): A TEQUESTA SUB-AREA HABITATION SITE
Title
THE ROLLING OAKS II SITE (8 BD 73): A TEQUESTA SUB-AREA HABITATION SITE.
Creator
GRAVES, OTTILIE COSDEN., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
The Rolling Oaks II site is one of a series of habitation sites in central Broward County, part of the Tequesta Sub- Area of the Glades Area of South Florida. This report explores the idea that these sites were more than mere hunting camps, but were semi-permanent interrelated inland communities. These sites probably date from the Late Archaic through tho Glades Periods in an uninterrupted sequence based on the ceramics and non-ceramic artifacts recovered.
Date Issued
1982
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14142
Subject Headings
Indians of North America--Florida--Antiquities, Rolling Oaks II Site (Fla), Florida--Antiquities
Format
Document (PDF)
ORIGIN OF THE ST. JOHNS ARCHAIC (FLORIDA)
Title
ORIGIN OF THE ST. JOHNS ARCHAIC (FLORIDA).
Creator
ANDERSON, NAIN E., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
In the St. Johns River area of Florida, the preceramic period has been found to have certain different artifact types than the neighboring Archaic traditions. These different artifact types-- shell gouges and celts--have their closest similarities with types from the preceramic of Venezuela and Cuba. It was postulated that the influence for the similar shell tools was derived from the original settlement of the Caribbean area by migrating groups from the northern South American coast. It was...
Show moreIn the St. Johns River area of Florida, the preceramic period has been found to have certain different artifact types than the neighboring Archaic traditions. These different artifact types-- shell gouges and celts--have their closest similarities with types from the preceramic of Venezuela and Cuba. It was postulated that the influence for the similar shell tools was derived from the original settlement of the Caribbean area by migrating groups from the northern South American coast. It was further postulated that the original inhabitants of the St. Johns area were part of the migrating groups and that they arrived in the area probably by way of the Everglades. Evidence from the Caribbean area preceramic periods was examined for proof of this migration. Finally, a possible linguistic relationship with the historic Indians of the St. Johns area and the Warao of Venezuela Has discussed.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13642
Subject Headings
Indians of North America--Florida--Saint Johns River Valley--Antiquities, Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities, Florida--Antiquities, Caribbean Area--Antiquities
Format
Document (PDF)
Paleodemography of Highland Beach the demographic parameters of a Native American population from Southeastern Florida
Title
Paleodemography of Highland Beach the demographic parameters of a Native American population from Southeastern Florida.
Creator
Hennessey, Christopher, Broadfield, Douglas C., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
Those who practice within the field and those who wish to discredit the field have long debated the field of paleodemography. In 1999 and again in 2000, researchers who used paleodemographic analysis assembled in Rostock, Germany to amend the present issues and change the way research is conducted in the future (Hoppa and Vaupel 2002). As a result of these meetings, researchers created the Rostock Manifesto. While many scholars accepted the change in the suite of methodologies carried out...
Show moreThose who practice within the field and those who wish to discredit the field have long debated the field of paleodemography. In 1999 and again in 2000, researchers who used paleodemographic analysis assembled in Rostock, Germany to amend the present issues and change the way research is conducted in the future (Hoppa and Vaupel 2002). As a result of these meetings, researchers created the Rostock Manifesto. While many scholars accepted the change in the suite of methodologies carried out under the new guidance, little has been said on the effectiveness of the manifesto. In this thesis, I argue that the Rostock Manifesto, at the very least, is effective in changing the results of paleodemographic research both qualitatively and quantitatively. Unfortunately, due to the nature of paleodemographic research it cannot be said of how effective the manifesto is.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004445, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004445
Subject Headings
Demographic anthropology, Demographic archaeology, Human population genetics, Human remains (Archaeology), Human skeleton -- Analysis, Indians of North America -- Florida, Native Americans -- Florida -- Population -- History -- Methodology, Paleoanthropology
Format
Document (PDF)
Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida, Volume 1
Title
Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida, Volume 1.
Creator
Knight of Elvas, Hernández de Biedma, Luys
Abstract/Description
As told by a Knight of Elvas and in Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the expedition. Translated by Buckingham Smith together with an account of De Soto's Expedition. Based on the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, his private secretary. Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Edited with an introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of History in Yale University. Illustrated. Volume 1. The Bradford club -- Life of Soto -- Proem -- True relation of the...
Show moreAs told by a Knight of Elvas and in Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the expedition. Translated by Buckingham Smith together with an account of De Soto's Expedition. Based on the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, his private secretary. Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Edited with an introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of History in Yale University. Illustrated. Volume 1. The Bradford club -- Life of Soto -- Proem -- True relation of the vicissitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida / now just given by a fidalgo of Elvas. Index of the chapters contained in the Discovery of Florida (p. 1-210) -- Annotations / made by the translator to matters in the Relac¸am (p. [211]-228) -- Relation of the conquest of Florida / presented by Luys Hernandez de Biedma in the year 1544 to the King of Spain in council ; translated from the original document (p. [229]-261) -- Appendix. Translations [of letters, official documents and royal decrees] (p. [263]-312) -- Index (p. [313]-324).
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Date Issued
1905
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000369
Subject Headings
Soto, Hernando de, -- approximately 1500-1542, Indians of North America -- Florida, Florida -- History -- To 1565, European Discovery and Settlement in Florida, 1492-1821 -- Explorers and Travelers, 1492-1700
Format
E-book