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Rich with photographs and colorful drawings, this history of south Florida's Calusa people presents a vivid picture of the natural environment and teeming estuaries along Florida's coasts that sustained the Calusa.
<p>For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Middle Cumberland River Valley harvested shellfish for food and raw materials then deposited the remains in dense concentrations along the river. Very little research has been published on the Archaic period shell mounds in this region. Demonstrating that nearly forty such sites exist, this volume presents the results of recent surveys, excavations, and laboratory work as well as fresh examinations of past investigations that have been difficult for scholars to access. <br /></p>
This book tells the story of the steamship <em>Robert J. Walker</em>, an early coastal survey ship for the agency that would later become the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that sank with loss of 21 crew off the coast of New Jersey in 1860. The wreck was a frequent stop for divers and anglers before it was identified by a team of researchers in 2013. Here, leaders in the documentation efforts describe the history of the ship and the archaeology of the shipwreck, emphasizing the collaborative community participation that made the project successful.
<p><em></em>Looking closely at nineteenth-century texts and twentieth-century novels written by African American women about antebellum America, <em>Resistance Reimagined</em> highlights examples of black women’s activism within a society that spoke so much of freedom but granted it so selectively. </p><p> </p>
Originally prepared as a report for the National Park Service in 1988, John Griffin’s work places the human occupation of the Everglades within the context of South Florida’s unique natural environmental systems.
This is the story of America's first permanent English settlement as told through its relationship with Virginia’s native peoples.