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Culture and Environment in the Domain of the Calusa is a comprehensive report of interdisciplinary archaeological and paleoenvironmental research in southwest Florida, home of the complex and powerful Calusa Indians. Included are studies of ceramics, shell artifacts, bone artifacts, human burials, estuarine hererogeneity and dynamism, sea-level fluctuations, archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, seasonality, and site formation processes.
The Calusa Indians of southwest Florida have long been an enigma to anthropologists because of their complex level of social organization in the absence of agriculture. Edited by William Marquardt, this collection of papers provides a detailed examination of the culture, history, and artifacts of these remarkable south Florida Native Americans based on archaeological, historical, and ecological research.
William Marquardt has over 30 years of archaeological experience in France, the American Southwest, Midwest, and Southeast, and Florida. A curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, he has researched southwest Florida's coastal sites for over 20 years.
viii + 440 pp., drawings, photos, index
ISBN 1-881448-00-2 (softcover)