Midden, Mounds, and Mortuary Cults - Excavations at the Swift Creek and Weeden Island Byrd Hammock Site in Wakulla County, Florida

Author(s): Jeffrey Shanks

Year: 2016

Summary

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 changes between the Middle and Late Woodland periods. One of the primary changes appears to be the introduction of new mortuary practices coincident with the appearance of Weeden Island ceramic styles across the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast.

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Midden, Mounds, and Mortuary Cults - Excavations at the Swift Creek and Weeden Island Byrd Hammock Site in Wakulla County, Florida. Jeffrey Shanks. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405266)

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