It’s the Faunal Countdown! Analysis of Faunal Remains from the 2017 Excavations at the Ryan-Harley Site, Wacissa River, Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2017, the Florida State University underwater field school conducted excavations of the middle-Paleoindian Ryan-Harley site (8JE1004) in the Wacissa River in northwest Florida. These excavations recovered significant faunal remains from three one-meter units in association with lithic artifacts, potentially representing a Suwannee-aged disposal midden. Previous research at the site, the only known single-component Suwannee site, has indicated that faunal materials represent a broad-spectrum subsistence adaptation. The current analysis focuses upon contextualizing the new faunal remains within the known site dataset. Fabric analyses are conducted in tandem with more traditional zooarchaeological methods in order to discuss site formation processes in combination with Middle Paleoindian subsistence strategies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25583