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Conference paper
Coastal chiefdoms and the question of agriculture: An ethnohistorical overview
56th Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference (Pensacola, Florida, 11/1999)
11/12/1999
Abstract
As has been aptly summarized by archaeologist David Hurst Thomas as "the Guale problem," considerable debate still exists regarding the degree to which the Indians of the Atlantic coastal zone north of St. Augustine could be characterized as sedentary agriculturalists, particularly when compared with interior groups. Influenced by early Jesuit letters, many researchers consider late-prehistoric coastal groups to have been severely limited in both agricultural productivity and settlement stability due to environmental constraints, though all groups clearly farmed during the later Franciscan mission period. This paper addresses the problem with a wide range of ethnohistorical data from eazly colonial sources.
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- Title
- Coastal chiefdoms and the question of agriculture: An ethnohistorical overview
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Conference
- 56th Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference (Pensacola, Florida, 11/1999)
- Format
- pdf
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380113390506600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Anthropology
- Language
- English