Swift Creek (Other Keyword)
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Recent investigations of Swift Creek and Weeden Island mound-midden complexes at Byrd Hammock in Wakulla County, Florida, and on Tyndall Air Force Base in Bay County, Florida, and show that there were direct and/or indirect interactions among these Woodland sites. Geophysical surveys of village plazas, comparisons of ceramic stamped patterns, and other data show the presence of a intraregional social network with shared expressions of ideology and settlement patterning that underwent similar...
Strategic Factors in Middle and Late Woodland Settlement Patterns on East Peninsula, Tyndall Air Force Base, Bay County, Florida (2016)
Data derived from archaeological investigations at Tyndall Air Force Base in northwestern Florida suggest strategic decision-making in settlement patterns during the Middle and Late Woodland periods. The installation occupies prime property on a northwest/southeast-trending peninsula that extends for 18 miles along the Gulf of Mexico and is between two and three miles wide. This small coastal stretch with minimal relief was the scene of increasingly intensive settlement beginning with the...