Exploring Florida Cultural Legacies

Selected Bibliography: Pre-Contact Florida and Mississippian Arts and Cultures

Brain, Jeffrey P. Bain, Philip Phillips, and Susan P. Sheldon. 1996. Shell Gorgets: Styles of the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Southeast.  Cambridge: Harvard UP and Peabody Museum Press.

Cushing, James Hamilton. 2000. Exploration of Ancient Key-Dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida.

Galloway, Patricia, ed. 1989.  The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex:  Artifacts and Analysis. The Cottonland Conference.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Gilligand, Marion S.  1975. The Material Culture of Key Marco Florida. Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida.

Hudson, Charles. 1976. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press.

Lankford, Geroge E., F. Kent Reilly, and James F. Garber. 2011.  Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World. Austin: U of Texas Press. 201-39.

—. 2007. “Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex,” in Ancient Objects, eds. Reilly and Garber, 8-38.

Mackenthun, Gesa and Christen Mucher, eds. 2021.  Decolonizing “Prehistory.”  Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Milanich, Jerald T.  1994.  Archaeology from Pre-Columbian Florida.        Gainesville:  University Press of Florida.

—. 1996.  The Timucua.  Cambridge:  Blackwell Press.

Reilly III, F. Kent and James F. Garber, eds. 2007.  Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms. Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

Townsend, Richard F. and Robert Sharp, eds.  2004. Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand.  American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South. The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press.

Williams, Stephen, ed. 1968. The Waring Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Selected Bibliography:  Contact Florida and Missions

Cordell, Ann S. and Jeffrey Mithem, eds. 2021. Methods, Mounds, and Missions:  New Contributions to Florida Archaeology.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Ethridge, Robbie, and Sheri M. Huck-Hall. 2009.  Mapping the Mississippi           

Shatter Zone.  The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press.

Gannon, Michael. 1983.  The Cross in the Sand:  the Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870.  Gainesville:  University Presses of Florida.

Hann, John H. A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions. 1996. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

—. 1991. Missions to the Calusa. Gainesville:  University of Florida Press.

—. 1988. The Apalachee Indians and the Mission San Luis. Gainesville. University Press of Florida.

Johnson Timothy J. and Jeffrey Burns, eds. 2021.  Facing Florida. Essays on Culture and Religion in Early Modern Southeastern America. Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History. 

Lorant, Stefan, ed. and trans. 1965.  The New World. The First Pictures of America.  Made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and Engraved by Theodore de Bry, with Contemporary Narratives of the French Settlements in Florida 1562-1565, and the English Colonies in Virginia, 1585-1590.  New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce.

McEwan, Bonnie G., ed. 1993. The Spanish Missions of La Florida.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida.

Milanich, Jerald T. 1999. Laboring in the Fields of the Lord.  Washington:  Smithsonian Institution Press.

Peres, Tanya M. Rochelle A. Marrinan. 2021.  Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida. University Press of Florida, University of Florida Press.

Worth, John. E. 2014.  The Struggle for the Georgia Coast.  Tuscaloosa:  University of     Alabama Press.

—.  1998.  The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida. 2 vols.   Gainesville:  UP of Florida.