Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing
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- ISBN 9780813028040
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 162 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 2005
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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These previously unpublished journals by one of the most complex and enigmatic American anthropologists, Frank Hamilton Cushing (1854-1900), offer a dramatically new perspective on his Florida explorations. Recorded during 1895-96 as he traveled the Gulf Coast, these daily personal observations add credibility to his contributions to science and anthropology and demonstrate his independent and intuitive intellect. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, Cushing's expedition came to Florida to explore the extraordinary remains of the ancient mound-building cultures along the coast from Tarpon Springs south to Marco Island. Cushing's discovery of the muck pond that came to be known as the fabled Court of the Pile Dwellers, located in what is now Collier County, uncovered a rich archaeological site with some of the finest examples of prehistoric native art in North America. Cushing's monumental findings at the Key Marco site have been vitally important to a global understanding of the technological, social, and cosmological complexity of indigenous maritime societies. This collection of personal journals opens the door to new research and information for archaeologists and archaeological theory. Written by a visionary on the eve of Florida's entry into the modern world, the journals provide a rare glimpse of the nascent field of cultural anthropology.
Phyllis E. Kolianos is environmental education manager for the Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center. Brent R. Weisman, associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, is the author of Pioneer in Space and Time: John Mann Goggin and the Development of Florida Archaeology (UPF) and Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians (UPF).
