Top 7 Books on Southeastern US Archaeology

1. An Early Florida Adventure Story

There was a sword-maker in Seville... so starts the account of Andrés de Segura, a teenaged Spanish sailor shipwrecked off the coast of the New World in 1595. Translated by John Hann.

2. Indians of the Greater Southeast

A collection of papers on Native American groups living from Florida to Texas during the first years of the European colonization of the American continent; edited by Bonnie McEwan.

3. Florida's Indians: From Ancient Times to the Present

A survey of Florida's prehistoric archaeology and the history of the Native peoples of Florida, nicely intertwined, from Jerald T. Milanich.

4. Spanish Colonial Gold Coins in the Florida Collections

An overview and description of the 18th century Spanish doubloons recovered from wrecks off the Atlantic coast of Florida in 1715.

5. Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States

This collection of articles, edited by Jane M. Eastman and Chirstopher B. Rodning includes six case studies in the American southeast which prove that identifying both female and male roles in prehistoric societies is possible and fruitful.

6. Archaeological Perspectives on the American Civil War

Edited by Clarence R. Geier and Stephen R. Potter, this book includes chapters on archaeological investigations at the sites of Antietam, Atlanta, Cool Spring, Camp Nelson, Fort C.F. Smith, Andersonville, Harpers Ferry, Manassas, and others.

7. The Place of Rings: The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point

Jon L. Gibson's recent book on the archaic period earthwork called Poverty Point reads a bit like a memoir--not a memoir for Gibson, who has studied Poverty Point for nearly fifty years, but for the site itself.