This course will cover the historical archaeology of Florida and the Southeast from the beginning of the early contact period in the 1500s to the time of Florida's becoming a state in 1845. Interactions between the Native American cultures of the region with Europeans and Africans will be discussed using historical documents and the archaeological record of the area.Suggested Reading: Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida and Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe, by Jerald T. Milanich; Apalachee: Land Between the Rivers, Missions to the Calusa, and A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions, by John H. Hann; The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Volumes I and II, by John Worth; The Spanish Missions of La Florida, ed. by Bonnie McEwan; Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory, ed. by Lee Panich and Tsim Schneider.
Maximum Class Size: 30.