The anthropology of Florida / Ales Hrdlicka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943.

Series:

Classics in southeastern archaeology.

Classics in southeastern archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Florida--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Seminole Indians--Antiquities.

Seminole Indians.

Florida--Antiquities.

Florida.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas. This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical anthropology, and aboriginal history, it also contains Hrdlicka's analysis of every human bone from Florida that he could find in collections. He made remarkably accurate observations about the general physical types of prehistoric Florida Indians and how they compared to nativ

Contents:

Contents; I. INDIAN REMAINS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN COAST OF FLORIDA; The Ten Thousand Islands Region; Indian Remains from Fort Myers to Key Marco; Key Marco Southward; Royal Palm Hammock; Lossman's River to the Southern Extremity of the Peninsula; General Impressions; Fort Myers to Lake Okechobee and East Coast; The Seminoles; II. ANTHROPOLOGY OF FLORIDA; Peopling and Tribes of Florida; Numbers, Antiquity; Physical Characteristics of the Floridians in Records; Physical Anthropology, Former Contributions; III. NEW OBSERVATIONS; Deformation; Massiveness; Disease; Unity of Type; The Skull

The Long BonesSummary; Detailed Measurements; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Originally published: Deland, Fla. : Florida State Historical Society, 1922, in series: Publications of the Florida State Historical Society ; no. 1.

ISBN:

0-8173-8465-0

OCLC:

650060117