Breaking New Ground: Archaeology of Domestic Life at the Weedon Island Site, Florida
Author(s): Robert Austin; John Arthur; Wendy Edwards; Sharlene O'Donnell; Christina Perry Sampson
Year: 2016
Summary
The Weedo(e)n Island site is well-known among archaeologists in the southeastern US as the type site of the Weeden Island culture, a mortuary complex shared by geographically wide-spread cultures ca. AD 200-900. Recent research (survey, excavation, artifact and faunal analysis, radiocarbon dating) by multiple institutions focusing on the domestic sphere have added new details about the site’s history and use during the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
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Breaking New Ground: Archaeology of Domestic Life at the Weedon Island Site, Florida. Robert Austin, John Arthur, Wendy Edwards, Sharlene O'Donnell, Christina Perry Sampson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404455)
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Keywords
General
Domestic Economy
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Radiocarbon Dating
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Weeden Island
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;