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Author: Gordon R. Willey
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 964078

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 696
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.3

ISBN: 0813016037
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.9901
EAN: 9780813016030

Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Fifty years after its first publication by the Smithsonian Institution, this landmark work is back in print. Written by the dean of North and South American archaeologists, Gordon Willey, the book initially marked a new phase in archaeological research. It continues to offer a major synthesis of the archaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast, with complete descriptions and illustrations of all the pottery types found in the area. The book contains data that remain indispensable to archaeologists working in every region or state east of the Mississippi River.

Customer Reviews:

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A Fascinating Vision of the Past in an Archaeological Classic December 2, 2007
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This book was written in the 1940's about archaeological digs which took place on the Gulf Coast of Florida between 1920 - 1945 or so. Gordon Willey, the book's author, was trying to create a "grand synthesis" of what had been discovered to date about the Native American cultures of Florida's Gulf Coast.

For the archaeologist, this book is fascinating because Willey literally created several of the "culture types" still used to define several of Florida's Native peoples, such as the Fort Walton culture, the Weeden Island culture, and the Safety Harbor culture. Since many of these sites were destroyed either during excavations or thereafter through development, Willey's detailed accounts of the sites and their excavation, as well the artifacts and features found therein, are our only source for understanding site patterns, cultural processes, and the nature and form of these sites.

For an ordinary reader - particularly a reader who lives in Florida, especially in the region around Tampa Bay or the Panhandle - Willey's accounts give us a picture of a region before its destruction by development, as well as a picture of the past. The modern resident of Sarasota or Bradenton, of Largo or Clearwater, of Pasco, may be astonished to learn that, before Parrish was a series of "upscale developments" surrounded by orange groves, there was a series of mound complexes there which were thriving communities when De Soto arrived in 1539; that the great mound at Safety Harbor was likely the principal town of the Tocobaga, and that many other such mounds once existed nearby; and that, before Tampa Bay was an endless series of subdivisions, it was the heartland of several great cultures which were both among the first to feel the storm of European contact, and among the first to disappear thereafter.

This is a very good and interesting book, and I highly recommend it to both archaeologists and the general public alike.

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