Interest in the study of foodways through an archaeological lens, particularly in the American
Southeast, is evident in the abundance of literature on this topic over the past decade …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series represents a period-by-period
synthesis of southeastern prehistory designed for high school and college students …

Archaeologists have not readily applied collective action and institutional approaches to the
study of hunter-gatherers. This is especially true of the American Southeast. Here, I use a …

Mound Key was once the capital of the Calusa Kingdom, a large Pre-Hispanic polity that
controlled much of southern Florida. Mound Key, like other archaeological sites along the …

Abstract Our work at Mound Key, the Capital of the Calusa Kingdom, identifies a large
structure on top of Mound 1 that likely was associated with a powerful long-lived lineage …

Abstract At European contact, the Calusa of southwestern Florida were the most complex
society in Florida. For staple sustenance they relied not on agriculture, but on aquatic …

Abstract In 1566, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived at Mound Key, the capital of the Calusa
polity. What he saw there was unlike anything else he would encounter in La Florida, a …

In an article published in this journal in 1986, I critically reviewed models of the emergence
of the Calusa social formation in southwest Florida. An interdisciplinary project that I hoped …

Abstract During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, southeastern societies
erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material …