Stones in the Shell: A Lithic Analysis of a Woodland Shell Ring in Florida
Author(s): Ashley Brady; Tanya Peres
Year: 2018
Summary
The ability to manufacture and modify tools was an essential skill for the people of the past. Each tool manufactured served at least one purpose, and often multiple purposes. This includes flakes from tool modification and reworking. This poster represents the results of analysis of flakes and debitage from the Woodland period (ca. 2400 rcy BP) shell ring site of Mound Field (8Wa8), along the north Gulf Coast of Florida. Over 2,000 flakes, tools, and other modified lithics recovered from shell midden and feature contexts were analyzed as part of this research. The lithic data are integrated with the preliminary zooarchaeological, feature, and ceramic data to allow for a more robust interpretation of tool use and function.
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Stones in the Shell: A Lithic Analysis of a Woodland Shell Ring in Florida. Ashley Brady, Tanya Peres. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445362)
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Keywords
General
Lithic Analysis
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Material Culture and Technology
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Woodland
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): 22038