The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Carib

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Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the Mississippia

"An important book about a natural World Heritage site that also has a rich human heritage."--American Archaeology "As the only available synthesis of the archa

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