Tree Island Life: Late Archaic Adaptations of a Northern Everglades Community
Author(s): William Locascio
Year: 2018
Summary
The Wedgworth Midden (8PB16175), a Late Archaic tree island site near Belle Glade, Florida, produced large quantities of faunal remains during excavations undertaken by Florida Gulf Coast University in May of 2016. Analysis of these remains allows insight into patterns of resource acquisition and reveals ways in which people adapted to the local environment. Comparison of proportions of taxa from different occupational periods allows us to trace changes in resource use and sheds light on questions concerning the timing and nature of human settlement in the region and changes in strategies of resource acquisition through time.
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Tree Island Life: Late Archaic Adaptations of a Northern Everglades Community. William Locascio. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444927)
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Keywords
General
Archaic
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Environment and Climate
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southeast United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 21615