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List of Illustrations Figures 2.1. Map of important locations and rivers in La Florida 6 2.2. Map of mission locations ca. 1650 9 2.3. Map of mission cultures and ethnic groups 11 2.4. Example of hypoplastic defects 20 2.5. Example of cribra orbitalia 21 2.6. Example of periosteal lesion 22 3.1. Temporal trends in population size 28 3.2. Structure of precontact chiefdoms and settlement hierarchy 37 3.3. Figure demonstrating the process of Stage 1 congregación 39 3.4. Figure demonstrating the process of Stage 2 congregación 41 3.5. Post-1650 transformation of the Timucua interior and Guale and Timucua coast 43 4.1. Equal and additive effects model of polygenic inheritance 60 4.2. Genetic and environmental determinants of phenotype 62 4.3. Relationship between total phenotypic variance, additive genetic variance, and environmental variance 65 5.1. Example of a molar with mesiodistal and buccolingual dimensions indicated 83 5.2. Speci¤c teeth measured for this analysis 84 5.3a–d. Scatterplot matrix assessing correlation between maxillary tooth size and age 86 5.4a–d. Scatterplot matrix assessing correlation between mandibular tooth size and age 90 6.1. Map indicating locations of Apalachee samples used in this analysis 105 7.1. Map indicating locations of Guale samples used in this analysis 130 8.1. Demographic transitions in La Florida populations 162 Tables 2.1. Important historical dates for the First Spanish Period 8 2.2. Comparative summary of mission populations 12 4.1. Summary of evolutionary mechanisms 71 4.2. Polygenic model of equal and additive effects 74 4.3. Relationship between genotypic and phenotypic variability 75 4.4. Modeling effects of gene ®ow on allele frequencies 77 5.1. Age of formation for the mesiodistal and buccolingual dimensions of the polar teeth 82 5.2. Correlation between tooth size and age-at-death 92 5.3. Site-speci¤c correlations between tooth size and age for the maxilla 92 5.4. Site-speci¤c correlations between tooth size and age for the mandible 93 5.5. Summary statistics and p-values for intra-observer error analyses 94 5.6. Summary statistics and p-values for inter-observer error analyses 95 6.1. Apalachee Province skeletal samples 104 6.2. Apalachee standard deviations and sample sizes 109 6.3. Apalachee maxillary univariate variance tests 110 6.4. Apalachee mandibular univariate variance tests 111 6.5. Apalachee maxillary univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals 112 6.6. Apalachee mandibular univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals 113 6.7. Van Valen’s test ANOVA for Apalachee Province samples 114 7.1. Guale Province skeletal samples 129 7.2. Guale aggregate Precontact and Mission Period sites (sample size, standard deviation) 133 7.3. Guale maxillary univariate variance tests 134 7.4. Guale mandibular univariate variance tests 135 7.5. Guale maxillary univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals 136 7.6. Guale mandibular univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals 137 7.7. Guale sex-speci¤c univariate variance tests 138 7.8. Guale maxillary univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals— males 139 7.9. Guale mandibular univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals— males 140 7.10. Guale maxillary univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals— females 141 7.11. Guale mandibular univariate variance ratio con¤dence intervals— females 142 7.12. Van Valen’s test ANOVA for combined-sex Guale Province samples 142 7.13. Van Valen’s test ANOVA for Guale Province male samples 143 7.14. Van Valen’s test ANOVA for Guale Province female samples 143 7.15. Determinant ratios for Precontact to Mission Period variability comparisons 144 viii Illustrations 7.16. Matrix correlation p-values for raw and ranked biological and burial distance matrices 145 7.17. Decomposition proportions for Guale females 145 7.18. Con¤dence intervals for difference in proportions 145 8.1. Summary of mission burial demography 154 Illustrations ix ...

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