TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the season of mound building through oxygen isotope geochemistry at the Garden Patch site, Gulf Coast Florida, USA
AU - Lulewicz, Isabelle Holland
AU - Wallis, Neill J.
AU - Thompson, Victor D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida. We thank Donna Ruhl for assistance with the collection. Additional support was provided by the Departments of Anthropology at the University of Georgia and the University of Georgia Center for Applied Isotope Studies. We thank the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Division of Historical Resources, and the Florida Public Archaeology Network for their support and enthusiasm.
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© 2019, © Southeastern Archaeological Conference 2019.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - The American Southeast saw the development of large ceremonial village centers, the coalescence of households, and monumental architecture integrated into village layout during the Middle Woodland period (ca. AD 1–600). These shifts toward more sedentary lifeways occurred independently of, and prior to, the domestication of plants across the Southeast. This paper examines the seasonality of monumental construction at the Garden Patch site located on the central Gulf Coast of Florida. This site contains evidence for rapid mound construction that followed a predetermined site plan. Here, we present oxygen isotope analyses of archaeological mollusk shells (Crassostrea virginica) to evaluate the seasonality and periodicity of monument construction. We conclude that mound construction occurred during the cooler months of the year. Ultimately, this contributes to an anthropological understanding of the development of these early ceremonial centers in the Southeast.
AB - The American Southeast saw the development of large ceremonial village centers, the coalescence of households, and monumental architecture integrated into village layout during the Middle Woodland period (ca. AD 1–600). These shifts toward more sedentary lifeways occurred independently of, and prior to, the domestication of plants across the Southeast. This paper examines the seasonality of monumental construction at the Garden Patch site located on the central Gulf Coast of Florida. This site contains evidence for rapid mound construction that followed a predetermined site plan. Here, we present oxygen isotope analyses of archaeological mollusk shells (Crassostrea virginica) to evaluate the seasonality and periodicity of monument construction. We conclude that mound construction occurred during the cooler months of the year. Ultimately, this contributes to an anthropological understanding of the development of these early ceremonial centers in the Southeast.
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U2 - 10.1080/0734578X.2019.1679571
DO - 10.1080/0734578X.2019.1679571
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076467223
SN - 0734-578X
VL - 39
SP - 16
EP - 28
JO - Southeastern Archaeology
JF - Southeastern Archaeology
IS - 1
ER -