The Calusa and Their Legacy: South Florida People and Their Environments

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MacMahon, Darcie A. Marquardt, William H.	University Press of Florida	2004	Book	Summer 2005	Vol. 9	No. 2

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MacMahon, Darcie A.
Marquardt, William H.

University Press of Florida

The Calusa of southwestern Florida were the last Florida group to succumb to European colonization, resisting the Spanish invaders for some 150 years. But by the mid-1700s they had disappeared. The ethnographic and archaeological record they left behind is a rich one that indicates a vibrant people who dominated their homeland as long ago as the first millennium B.C. They were so in tune with their watery environment that they never had to develop agriculture, depending entirely on the rich marine ecosystems for their sustenance.
In The Calusa and Their Legacy, noted archaeologists Marcie MacMahon and William Marquardt have produced the first popular study of these fascinating people. This volume in enhanced by outstanding illustrations created by artists at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville for their award winning Hall of South Florida People and Environments. This is a book that makes the Calusa come alive. —Mark Michel

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