| The Timucua Contributor(s): Milanich, Jerald T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631218645 ISBN-13: 9780631218647 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $45.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: This is the story of the Timucua, an American Indian people who thrived for centuries in the southeast portion of what is now the United States of America. Timucua groups lived in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia, a region occupied by native people for thirteen millennia. They were among the first of the American Indians to come in contact with Europeans, when the Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast in 1513. Thousands of archaeological sites, village middens and sand and shell mounds still dot the landscape, offering mute testimony to the former presence of the Timucua and their ancestors. Two hundred and fifty years after Ponce de Leon's voyage the Timucua had disappeared, extinguished by the ravages of colonialism. Who were the Timucua? Where did they come from? How did they live? What caused their extinction? These are questions this book attempts to answer, using information gathered from archaeological excavations and from the interpretation of historical documents left behind by the European powers, mainly Spain and France, who sought to colonize Florida and to place the Timucua under their sway. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Native American - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 975.901 |
| Series: Peoples of America |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.06" W x 9.01" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
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| Publisher Description: Based on the latest research findings, this is the moving story of the demise of one of the oldest of the American Indian peoples. |
