Kenan Field Site (Site Name Keyword)

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Sapelo Island
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Sapelo Island Project


Sapelo Island: Archaeological Indications of Community Structures at the Kenan Field Site (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Morgan R. Crook, Jr..

Aboriginal community structures are documented along the Atlan­ tic coast of southeastern North America in 16th and 17th century narra­ tives (e.g. Garcia 1902; Andrews and Andrews 1945). Community life and its organization for the Guale of the Georgia coast included periodic as­ semblies in council houses which were circular in shape and usually quite large. Individual apartments or cabins were elevated above the floor, lining the walls along the interior of these buildings, and in...