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“A sophisticated application of landscape thought to a recently crafted archaeological record of the St. Johns River.”— Cheryl Claassen, author of __Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley: Archaic Sacred Sites and Rituals__ “Changes the way archaeologists conceptualize the dynamic relationships between hunter-gatherers and cultural landscapes in Native North America. Anybody interested in hunter-gatherer societies, landscape archaeology, ancient monuments, anthropogenic environments, the archaeology and environmental history of Florida and the American South, and the history of North American archaeology should read this book.”—Christopher B. Rodning, coeditor of __Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States__ Large accumulations of ancient shells on coastlines and riverbanks were long considered the result of garbage disposal during repeated food gatherings by early inhabitants of the southeastern United States. In this volume__,__ Asa R. Randall presents the first new theoretical framework for examining such middens since Ripley Bullen’s seminal work sixty years ago. He convincingly posits that these ancient “garbage dumps” were actually burial

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Author

Asa R. Randall

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813061016

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Anthropology