Fort Center (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by University Press of Florida, Florida, 1994

0813012988 / 9780813012988

Series: Book 8 of 81 - Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen

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Paperback. "An excellent publication on an important southeastern site. . . . This book is a superb archaeological report."--Popular Archaeology"A landmark publication by one of the great American archaeologists, it should be read not only by southeastern specialists but by all concerned with agriculture and ceremonial life in the precolumbian New World."--Michael D. Coe, Curator, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Raising intriguing questions about the relationship of South Florida's prehistoric population to the Caribbean basin and about the origins of maize agriculture in the eastern United States, William Sears documents years of fieldwork at Fort Center, a site in the Lake Okeechobee Basin that was named for a nineteenth-century Seminole War fort. The Belle Glade people--by 500 B.C. the first inhabitants of the site--cultivated maize, draining their earliest fields with large circular ditches. Later fields resembled the raised linear earth mounds found at sites in Mesoamerica and northern South America. Excavations uncovered a charnel platform adorned with wood carvings of animals that was preserved in the mucky bottom of a pond, providing an unparalleled collection of prehistoric Indian art. Maps and photographs detailing these finds accompany the text. William H. Sears is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University, where he was Graduate Research Professor for many years. This text raises questions about the relationship of South Florida's prehistoric population to the Caribbean basin, and about the origins of maize agriculture in the eastern United States. It also documents years of research at the Fort Center site. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Fort Center (Paperback)
Author
William H. Sears
Publisher
University Press of Florida, Florida
Publication year
1994
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0813012988
ISBN 13
9780813012988
Series
Book 8 of 81: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen

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