Considering Urbanism at Mound Key (Caalus), the capital of the Calusa in the 16th Century, Southwest Florida, USA

Thompson, Victor D.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101546

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“…This suggests that the population in Mound Key may truly be wild G. hirsutum . On the other hand, Mound Key was the historical political capital of the Calusa kingdom over 2000 years ago, established from discarded shells, bone, and pottery, rising up to 9 m above the surrounding Estero Bay 16 . The Calusa might have cultivated cotton for their net-fishing culture, which started about 6000 years ago around Useppa Island in southern Florida 17 .…”

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Origin and diversity of the wild cottons (Gossypium hirsutum) of Mound Key, Florida

Ning,

Rogers,

Hsu

et al. 2024

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Elucidating genetic diversity within wild forms of modern crops is essential for understanding domestication and the possibilities of wild germplasm utilization. Gossypium hirsutum is a predominant source of natural plant fibers and the most widely cultivated cotton species. Wild forms of G. hirsutum are challenging to distinguish from feral derivatives, and truly wild populations are uncommon. Here we characterize a population from Mound Key Archaeological State Park, Florida using genome-wide SNPs extracted from 25 individuals over three sites. Our results reveal that this population is genetically dissimilar from other known wild, landrace, and domesticated cottons, and likely represents a pocket of previously unrecognized wild genetic diversity. The unexpected level of divergence between the Mound Key population and other wild cotton populations suggests that the species may harbor other remnant and genetically distinct populations that are geographically scattered in suitable habitats throughout the Caribbean. Our work thus has broader conservation genetic implications and suggests that further exploration of natural diversity in this species is warranted.

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confidence: 99%

Origin and diversity of the wild cottons (Gossypium hirsutum) of Mound Key, Florida

Ning,

Rogers,

Hsu

et al. 2024

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Calusa Fisheries and Estuarine Socio-Ecologies in Southwestern Florida: An Examination of Large-Bodied Fish

Holland-Lulewicz

2024

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution

Kanne,

Haughton,

Lash

2024

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Animal husbandry was of fundamental consequence in the planning and development of larger and more permanent communities. Pastoralism is often assumed to be highly mobile when considering social institutions and political formations, despite the diversity of husbandry practices that are either wholly, or largely, tethered to relatively sedentary social aggregations. Key tenets of more settled animal husbandry are intensive social relations between people, and between people, animals, and landscapes. This entails reciprocal, multispecies cooperative efforts to decide how to utilize pastoral resources, choose where to settle, and how to organize settlements with an eye for the animals. Yet, scholars have rarely considered how the logistics and social dynamics of pastoralism shaped the transition to sedentism and, particularly, the development of collective forms of governance in prehistory. In this paper, we re-center pastoralism in narratives of settling down, in order to recognize the critical ways that relations with animals shaped how humans learned to move and dwell in emergent grazing landscapes. We take an institutional approach to the concept of “the commons,” demonstrating the dynamics through 19th-century Irish rundale, then draw on case studies from Southern Scandinavia and the Carpathian Basin to consider the commons as a multispecies institution which resulted in variable sociopolitical formations of the European Bronze Age.

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Considering Urbanism at Mound Key (Caalus), the capital of the Calusa in the 16th Century, Southwest Florida, USA

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Origin and diversity of the wild cottons (Gossypium hirsutum) of Mound Key, Florida

Origin and diversity of the wild cottons (Gossypium hirsutum) of Mound Key, Florida

Calusa Fisheries and Estuarine Socio-Ecologies in Southwestern Florida: An Examination of Large-Bodied Fish

Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution

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