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Beyond the Nasca Lines
Inhabited for over 5,000 years before European colonization, the site of La Tiza in Peru's Nasca Desert provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the dynamics of ancient …
Cuban Sandwich
A delicious, multilayered tale of a legendary sandwich Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for CookingCreative Loafing Tampa Bay Best of the Bay Awards, "e;Best Approach to …
Reading the Bones
What can bones tell us about past lives? Do different bone shapes, sizes, and injuries reveal more about people's genes or about their environments? Reading the Bones tackles this …
Thatched Roofs and Open Sides
Before and during the Seminole Wars, the Seminoles typically used chickee huts as hideouts and shelters. But in the twentieth century, the government deemed the abodes …
New Orleans Voudou Priestess
Against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Orleans, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau disentangles the complex threads of …
Archaeology of Ancestors
Contributors to this landmark volume demonstrate that ancestor veneration was about much more than claiming property rights: the spirits of the dead were central to domestic …
Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators provides a welcome opportunity for readers to discover the character--and characters--of "e;real"e; Florida. In this compilation, drawn in …
Maya E Groups
As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to …
Thunder on the River
When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four …
State of Defiance
Florida Historical Society HarryT. & Harriette V. Moore AwardDrawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who …
Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast
The late Pleistocene-early Holocene landscape hosted more species and greater numbers of them in the Southeast compared to any other region in North America at that time. Yet James …
Revolting Things
In this book, Paul Mullins examines a wide variety of material objects and landscapes that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us. Bringing archaeological …