Timucua

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VNR AG, Aug 14, 1996 - History - 235 pages
The Timucua were a Native American people who thrived for centuries in the southeastern portion of what is now the US. In this study, Jerald T. Milanich uses information from archaeological excavations and historical documents to uncover details of the Timucua group's existence and eventual extinction.

The Timucua were among the first Native Americans to come in contact with Europeans when the Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast in 1513. Two hundred and fifty years after the explorer's voyage the Timucua had disappeared, extinguished by the ravages of colonialism. Thousands of archaeological sites, village middens, and sand and shell mounds still dot the landscape, however, offering mute testimony to the former presence of this people and their ancestors.

 

Contents

The Beginning
1
xiii
17
Who Were the Timucua?
42
The Invasion
67
Spanish Missions
93
Agents of Change
116
Mission Settlements and Subsistence
130
The Organization of Societies
152
Beliefs and Behavior
182
The End
196
Bibliography
217
Index
227
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Jerald T. Milanich is Curator in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. His ten previous books include Florida Archaeology (1980), The Early Prehistoric Southeast (Garland, 1985) and First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (1989). With the exception of a year's post-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, Jerald Milanich has spent some thirty years in Florida researching the nature of past and present American Indian societies of the American southeast.