Event Details
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
PAST Monthly Meeting
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:30 pm
Location: Governor Martin House/Bureau of Archaeological Research
Description: The meeting will be held at the B. Calvin Jones Center for Archaeology at the Governor Martin House. The Center is located off Lafayette Street, between Seminole Drive and Myers Park Drive. We encourage you to bring a snack to share or to make a donation to our snack fund.
We will be welcoming Jeff Shanks of the Southeast Archeological Center who will be presenting:
Midden, Mounds, and Mortuary Cults—Excavations at the Swift Creek and Weeden Island Byrd Hammock Site in Wakulla County, Florida
Recent investigations of Swift Creek and Weeden Island mound-midden complexes at Byrd Hammock in Wakulla County, Florida, and on Tyndall Air Force Base in Bay County, Florida show that there were direct and/or indirect interactions among these Woodland sites. Geophysical surveys of village plazas, comparisons of ceramic stamped patterns, and other data show the presence of a intraregional social network with shared expressions of ideology and settlement patterning that underwent similar changes between the Middle and Late Woodland periods. One of the primary changes appears to be the introductio
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