"A major compendium of the latest effort of a truly blue-ribbon group of scholars. . . . The volume is certain to be a classic among scholars of archaeology, history, and geography, not only in Florida and the Southeast, but among the large numbers involved in Spanish colonial research elsewhere."--Robert L. Hoover, California Polytechnic State University"Continues brilliantly the pattern of excellence established by . . . pioneer mission scholars, [with] much to appeal to the specialist as well as the layman. . . . a good deal of simple, direct, and very interesting writing."--Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr., Valdosta State CollegeThis multidisciplinary volume brings together the latest findings of most of the scholars working in southeastern mission studies today, including much information never before published or narrowly circulated. Aimed at a broad audience, it reports the direct results of field research on mission sites. The authors are grappling with the effects of missionization through archaeology, history, bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and ethnobotany in order to understand both native and Spanish colonial inhabitants. ContentsThe Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: Our First Fifteen Years, by David Hurst ThomasArchitecture of the Missions Santa Maria and Santa Catalina de Amelia, by Rebecca SaundersThe Archaeology of the Convento de San Francisco, by Kathleen HoffmanSt. Augustine and the Mission Frontier, by Kathleen DeaganThe Mayaca and Jororo and Missions to Them, by John H. HannMission Santa Fe de Toloca, by Kenneth JohnsonArchaeology of Fig Springs Mission, Ichetucknee Springs State Park, by Brent R. WeismanSpanish-Indian Interaction on the Florida Missions: The Archaeology of Baptizing Spring, by L. Jill LoucksExcavations in the Fig Springs Mission Burial Area, by Lisa M. Hoshower and Jerald T. MilanichArchaeological Investigations at Mission Patale, 1984-1991, by Rochelle A. MarrinanHispanic Life on the Seventeenth-Century Florida Frontier, by Bonnie G. McEwanOn the Frontier of Contact: Mission Bioarchaeology in La Florida, by Clark Spencer LarsenPlant Production and Procurement in Apalachee Province, by C. Margaret ScarryEvidence for Animal Use at the Missions of Spanish Florida, by Elizabeth J. ReitzBeads and Pendants from San Luis de Talimali: Inferences from Varying Contexts, by Jeffrey M. MitchemA Distributional and Technological Study of Apalachee Colono-Ware from San Luis de Talimali, by Richard Vernon and Ann S. CordellBonnie G. McEwan is the director of archaeology at San Luis Archaeological and Historic Site in Tallahassee.
