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Falls of the Ohio River: Archaeology of Native American Settlement
Edited by David Pollack, Anne Tobbe Bader, and Justin N. Carlson

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.

A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground
Megan C. Kassabaum

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

This book presents a temporally and geographically broad yet detailed history of an important form of Native American architecture, the platform mound, revealing unexpected continuities in moundbuilding over many thousands of years.

The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Eric E. Bowne

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America’s deep past, representing a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and helping to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America.

Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America
Edited by Clay Mathers

This volume brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages, providing insights into the sixteenth-century indigenous communities of North America and the colonizing efforts of Spain.

Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida
Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Rochelle A. Marrinan

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, drawing on the past thirty years of work at sites from St. Augustine to the panhandle.

Methods, Mounds, and Missions: New Contributions to Florida Archaeology
Edited by Ann S. Cordell and Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Offering innovative ways of looking at existing data, as well as compelling new information, about Florida’s past, this volume updates current archaeological interpretations and demonstrates the use of new and improved tools to answer larger questions.

The Nine Lives of Florida’s Famous Key Marco Cat
Austin J. Bell

The story of an iconic artifact that has prevailed over impossibly long odds, this book explores the deep past of the Key Marco Cat, fascinating readers with the miracle and beauty of this rare example of pre-Columbian art.

New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery
Edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.

The Making of Mississippian Tradition
Christina M. Friberg

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America’s Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. This book offers a new, more nuanced interpretation of how and why Mississippian lifeways developed.

Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora
Edited by Charles H. McNutt and Ryan M. Parish

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

At its height between AD 1050 and 1275, the city of Cahokia was the largest settlement of the Mississippian culture, acting as an important trade center and pilgrimage site. While the influence of Cahokian culture on the development of monumental architecture, maize-based subsistence practices, and economic complexity throughout North America is undisputed, new research in this volume reveals a landscape of influence of the regions that had and may not have had a relationship with Cahokia.

Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate
Edited by Mark W. Hauser and Diane Wallman

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

This volume examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation, helping document the under-represented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire.

Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology: Colonialism, National Identity, and Resistance in Belize
Alicia Ebbitt McGill

Cultural Heritage Studies

Combining years of ethnographic research with British imperial archival sources, this book reveals how cultural heritage has been negotiated by colonial, independent state, and community actors in Belize from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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