Analysis of Four Types of Shell Artifacts from South Florida
Author(s): John F. Reiger
Year: 1981
Summary
This paper will discuss four kinds of shell artifacts the author has found in surface collections he has made in what John M. Goggin conceptualized as the "Glades Culture Area" of southern Florida (Goggin 1949a:n.p.). In accepting Goggin's concept of how prehistoric peoples adapted to the south Florida environment, I am, by implication, rejecting John W. Griffin's more recent concept of a "Circum-Glades Area" (Griffin 1974:343), which is based on the premise that the sites in the Everglades are merely "short term [huntingJ camps [used] by relatively small bands of people" (Griffin 1974:343, 344). From my own experience, combined with that of Roberts. Carr (personal communication, December 22, 1980), I have noted the existence· of large, seemingly permanent, village sites in the Glades proper, and I have found two of the shell-artifact types being discussed here (clam-segment tools and Busycon adzes) on both interior and coastal sites.
Cite this Record
Analysis of Four Types of Shell Artifacts from South Florida. John F. Reiger. Florida Anthropologist. 34: 4-20. 1981 ( tDAR id: 155212) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8155212
Keywords
Material
Shell
General
Miller
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Shell Analysis
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Shell Artifacts
Geographic Keywords
12999 (Fips Code)
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All Counties (County)
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Florida (State / Territory)
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North America (Continent)
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South Florida
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United States of America (Country)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -87.635; min lat: 24.396 ; max long: -79.974; max lat: 31.001 ;
Record Identifiers
NADB document id number(s): 354897
NADB citation id number(s): 000000049642
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