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 …

Elucidating genetic diversity within wild forms of modern crops is essential for understanding
domestication and the possibilities of wild germplasm utilization. Gossypium hirsutum is a …

Hernando de Soto's expedition through the southeastern United States between 1539 and
1543 is often regarded as a watershed moment for the collapse of Indigenous societies …

In the 16th century, the Calusa, a fisher-gatherer-hunter society, were the most politically
complex polity in Florida, and the archaeological site of Mound Key was their capital. Based …

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 …

A renewed adoption of relational perspectives by archaeologists working in eastern North
America has created an opportunity to move beyond categorical approaches, those reliant …

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 …

Circular shell rings along the South Atlantic coast of the United States are vestiges of the
earliest sedentary villages in North America, dating to 4500–3000 BP. However, little is …

Abstract Palaeoenvironmental analysis of Late Holocene stratigraphic sequences recovered
from two southwest Florida archaeological sites reveal a synchronous evolution of events …

In this comparative synthesis the authors summarize the most recent archaeological
research in the coastal regions of the American Southeast, focusing on the Gulf coast of …