The east Florida expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore / edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey M. Mitchem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936.

Contributor:

Mitchem, Jeffrey M.

Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)

Series:

Classics in southeastern archaeology.

Classics in southeastern archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936--Travel--Florida--Saint Johns River Watershed.

Moore, Clarence B.

Indians of North America--Florida--Saint Johns River Watershed--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Archaeological expeditions--Florida--Saint Johns River Watershed.

Archaeological expeditions.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida--Saint Johns River Watershed--History.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Saint Johns River Watershed (Fla.)--Antiquities.

Saint Johns River Watershed (Fla.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This comprehensive compilation of Moore's archaeological publications on eastern Florida will prove an invaluable primary resource for Florida archaeologists. Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936), a wealthy Philadelphia socialite, paper company heir, and photographer made the archaeology of the Southeast his passion beginning in the 1870's. This volume collects 17 of Moore's publications on East Florida, originally published between 1892 and 1903. These invaluable and copiously illustrated works document the results of Moore's

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction by Jeffrey M. Mitchem; A Burial Mound of Florida [1892]; Supplementary Investigation at Tick Island [1892]; Mounds in Florida [1892]; Certain Shell Heaps of the St. John's River, Florida, Hitherto Unexplored; Certain Sand Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida; Tobacco Pipes in Shell-Heaps of the St. John's [1894]; Additional Mounds of Duval and of Clay Counties, Florida. Mound Investigation on the East Coast of Florida. Certain Florida Coast Mounds North of the St. Johns River [1896]; Recent Acquisitions. A "Banner-Stone" of Shell [1898]

A Cache of Pendent Ornaments [1898] Sheet-Copper from the Mounds Is Not Necessarily of European Origin [1903]; Indexes

Notes:

Reprint of works originally published 1892-1903.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-585-14097-9

OCLC:

664233635