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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology: The Late Woodland Period through Recent History, Volume 2, synthesizes the archaeology and history of the Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro-Americans of the Apalachicola–lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia from about 1300 years ago until the present. The region extends from Columbia, Alabama, to the Gulf of Mexico. It is culturally and environmentally distinct but little known archaeologically because it crosses historic political boundaries at the frontier. Early chapters overview the environment and archaeology. Coverage then surveys time periods, from the Late Woodland to present. Topics include settlement, archaeological findings and material culture, subsistence and seasonality, history, sociopolitical systems, and peoples. White’s prodigious work reveals that the prehistoric Late Woodland cultures who developed maize agriculture developed into Fort Walton chiefdoms. Post-invasion and Spanish and British colonization, these peoples were replaced by consolidated groups of Native American survivors and maroons moving around the region. These multiethnic societies with blended material cultures developed new identities, living at the edges of colonial territories. Creek societies, many becoming Seminoles, fought on all sides of European and American conflicts until most Indians were forcibly removed in the 1830s. Then the region became important for cotton, cattle, and timber, which were often produced by enslaved labor and transported by steamboat. Later expansion of agriculture and silviculture, as well as turpentine, tupelo honey, and other industries, left material evidence. The usefulness of the information to modern society is noted. Copious illustrations enhance the scientific analyses and the telling of the human stories.

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"""There is no question that Nancy White is the right person to synthesize the archaeology of the Apalachicola-Lower Chattahoochee river valley region. She has spent her entire career. . . surveying and excavating the region's many archaeological sites. She and her students are really the only ones who have devoted significant time and effort into understanding the area's past. . ."" --Robert Austin has worked as a professional archaeologist in Florida for over 40 years. He is cofounder and principal researcher at the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education, Inc. (AWIARE)"

“There is no question that Nancy White is the right person to synthesize the archaeology of the Apalachicola-Lower Chattahoochee river valley region. She has spent her entire career. . . surveying and excavating the region’s many archaeological sites. She and her students are really the only ones who have devoted significant time and effort into understanding the area’s past. . .”—Robert Austin has worked as a professional archaeologist in Florida for over 40 years. He is cofounder and principal researcher at the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education, Inc. (AWIARE)

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Nancy Marie White is professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is author of Archaeology for Dummies, editor of Gulf Coast Archaeology: The Southeastern United States and Mexico, and coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

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