Archaeology of Northern Florida, A.D. 200-900

by Milanich, Jerald T.; Cordell, Ann S.; Knight, Vernon J.; Kohler, Timothy A.; Sigler-Lavelle, Brenda J.

• ISBN13: 9780813015385
• ISBN10: 0813015383
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-22
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

"Readable, informative, and simply indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in Eastern North America's prehistory". -- American Antiquity

Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURES	xi	(2)
LIST OF TABLES	xiii	(2)
PREFACE	xv	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvii
1. Behind the Scenes	1	(8)
2. The Concept of Weeden Island	9	(16)
Geographic and Temporal Distribution	10	(6)
The Development of the Weeden Island Concept	16	(9)
3. Patterns of Site Location and Prehistoric Occupation	25	(20)
North Florida: Region of the McKeithen Weeden Island Culture	26	(3)
Physiography	29	(1)
Natural Environment	30	(5)
Site Distribution Data from North Florida	35	(2)
McKeithen Weeden Island Settlement Patterns	37	(8)
4. The McKeithen Village	45	(46)
Generating Test Implications	45	(5)
Field Investigations	50	(12)
Ceramics	62	(7)
Lithic Materials	69	(6)
Floral and Faunal Remains	75	(1)
Building a Chronology	76	(5)
A Return to the Hypothesis	81	(8)
Summary	89	(2)
5. Charnel Knowledge: McKeithen Mounds	91	(29)
Preparation of the Dead: Mound A	94	(11)
Residence and Tomb of the Religious Specialist: Mound B	105	(7)
Final Interment: Mound C	112	(5)
Good News-Bad News Archaeology	117	(3)
6. Technological Analysis of the Ceramics	120	(20)
Origin of Manufacture	121	(4)
Specialized Use: Sacred-Secular Ceramic Variability	125	(7)
Craft Specialization in the Manufacture of Pottery	132	(8)
7. Description of the Pottery Vessels from the McKeithen Mounds	140	(23)
Mound A	140	(6)
Mound B	146	(4)
Mound C	150	(10)
Comparison of the Mound Ceramic Assemblages	160	(3)
8. Symbolism: Interpreting the Mound C Pottery Cache and Related Weeden Island Ceramics	163	(22)
Theoretical and Methodological Bases for the Analysis	163	(2)
The Mound C Effigy Vessels and Their Cultural Contexts	165	(4)
Relation to Zooarchaeological Studies	169	(2)
Identification and Symbolism of Animal Classes	171	(11)
Integrating the Symbols	182	(3)
9. Interpreting Weeden Island	185	(16)
Chronology	185	(2)
Village Life, Settlements, and Social Organization	187	(8)
Ceramics: Technological and Symbolic Approaches	195	(2)
The Big Picture: Weeden Island and the Greater Southeast	197	(4)
Appendix: Other North Florida Weeden Island Sites	201	(8)
Johns Pond Village Site	202	(1)
Leslie Mound and Village	202	(1)
Carter Mound 1 Complex	203	(6)
REFERENCES	209	(8)
INDEX	217