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The Johns Island Site, Hernando County, Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Adelaide K.
Affiliation:
Florida Park Service, Gainesville, Florida
Ripley P. Bullen
Affiliation:
Florida Park Service, Gainesville, Florida

Extract

Dr. Antonio J. Waring, Jr., of Savannah, Georgia, dug a test trench at Johns Island in August, 1948. He discovered an upper zone of oyster shells containing sherds of the Weeden Island period and a lower zone of cemented fresh-water snail shells in which were large percussion-flaked tools but apparently no pottery. At the conference on The Florida Indian and His Neighbors held at Rollins College, Winter, Park Florida, in April he called this site to the attention of the Florida Park Service and suggested that additional work would be worthwhile. We conducted excavations at the island in May, 1949, with two primary objectives: first, to determine the associations of the large stone tools; second, to secure data relative to a rise in sea level during or since occupancy.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1950

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