Prehistoric Ceramics From the Boyer Survey of Lake Okeechobee in the Northern Everglades

Author(s): Dorothy Block

Year: 2016

Summary

In 2007, severe drought conditions at Lake Okeechobee, in the northern Everglades revealed 6 prehistoric archaeological sites. These were the Caleb Boyer , Ritta Island , Kreamer Island and three sites referred to as the Pelican Bay series. Since Phase 1 investigations failed to yield intact strata or datable carbon, it became necessary to assign each site’s temporal position based on their artifact assemblages. This paper presents and a detailed summary of the sites’ ceramics and concludes that they range in date from 500 B.C. to approximately A.D. 1450 and thus can be assigned to the Glades I- Glades III periods.

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Prehistoric Ceramics From the Boyer Survey of Lake Okeechobee in the Northern Everglades. Dorothy Block. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403273)

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Keywords

General
Everglades, Ceramics, Glades Period, • Lake Okeechobee, Boyer Survey

Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast

Spatial Coverage

min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;