Author: Frank Hamilton CushingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Preliminary Report on the Exploration of Ancient Key-dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Author: Frank Hamilton CushingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Exploration of Ancient Key-dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Author: Frank Hamilton CushingPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813017914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
First published more than a hundred years ago, this illustrated monograph on the Key Marco site on Florida's Gulf Coast chronicles archaeological discoveries that have never been duplicated. In its time, work at the site was considered the most important excavation on earth and, until 1970, it was considered the most advanced work in archaeology anywhere in the United States.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Includes list of members.
The ... Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history museums
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Seeking the American Tropics
Author: James A. KushlanPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813065488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.
Contributions to South American Archeology
Author: Annual Report
Author: Field Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Latimer Collection of Antiquities from Porto Rico in the National Museum, and the Guesde Collection of Antiquities in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, West Indies
Author: Otis T. MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carib Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees
Author: Chicago Natural History MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees - Chicago. Natural History Museum
Author: Chicago Natural History MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description