Wetlands and Woodland Period Settlement on the Florida Gulf Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Wetlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Most prominent Woodland period ceremonial centers along the Gulf Coast are located near wetlands, which provided access to a wide variety of resources for the hunter-fisher-gatherer populations who built them. Researchers investigating these sites often suggest that these rich environments created the conditions for increasingly settled lifeways, complex social organization, and communal labor projects. In this presentation, I discuss the role that rich and expansive wetlands of the Gulf Coast played in reducing constraints on settlement and enabling a variety of developmental trajectories for Woodland period ceremonial centers.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology of Wetlands   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40091.0