Song of the Tides
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archaeology
artifacts
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ceramics
ceremonial complex
climate
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
environment
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
hunting
Indigenous societies
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
Native Americans
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
southeastern archaeology
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
Woodland period
Product details
- ISBN 9780817354848
- Weight: 545g
- Dimensions: 165 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2008
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the Calusa's historic rejection of 16th-century Spanish occupiers.Beginning with their battle against the forces of Ponce de Leon, the Calusa Indians of southwest Florida entered a dark period of European invasion and native resistance, which changed the nature and course of life on the North American continent.""Song of the Tides"" is a work of anthropological fiction set during the Spanish entrada into southwest Florida and their encounters with the Calusa. Relying on letters and memoirs, especially those of explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles, shipwrecked captive Escalante Fontaneda, and the Jesuit priest Juan Rogel, Joseph has woven a tale of vivid historical detail and compelling human drama. Working with Calusa scholars, the author has created a superbly written account of the clash of two proud and dominant cultures. Told through the voice of Aesha, daughter of the great Calusa chief Caalus, as well as those of other political and spiritual leaders, the fictional narrative spans half a century of conflict with Spanish soldiers and Jesuits, infighting between bands, struggle to preserve their culture, and eventual defeat of the Spanish through wit and deceit.
Tom Joseph is a novelist, essayist, former attorney and municipal judge, and independent scholar of Florida history.
