scholarly journals East-central Florida pre-Columbian wood sculpture: Radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 595-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Ostapkowicz ◽  
Rick J. Schulting ◽  
Ryan Wheeler ◽  
Lee Newsom ◽  
Fiona Brock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Strontium Isotope ◽  
Wood Identification ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Isotope Studies ◽  
Wood Sculpture

scholarly journals THE ORIGINS OF TRADESCANT’S ‘INDIA OCCIDENTALI’ WOODEN CLUBS:14C DATING, MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION AND STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STUDIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 187-218
Author(s):  
Joanna Ostapkowicz ◽  
Alison Roberts ◽  
Jevon Thistlewood ◽  
Fiona Brock ◽  
Alex C Wiedenhoeft ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Strontium Isotope ◽  
Wood Identification ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
Isotope Studies ◽  
Isotope Analyses ◽  
Material Study

This paper focuses on the material study (radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope analyses) of four large ‘India occidentali’ clubs, part of the founding collections of the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and originally part of John Tradescant’s ‘Ark’, in Lambeth (1656). During the seventeenth century, the term ‘India occidentali/occidentales’ referred not only to the ‘West Indies’ (its literal translation), but to the Americas as a whole; hence, the Ashmolean clubs and, indeed, thecforty examples of similarly large, decorated clubs known in international museum collections had no firm provenance and lacked even the most basic information. Previous attempts at attribution, based on stylistic comparisons with nineteenth- to twentieth-century Brazilian and Guyanese clubs, have proved inconclusive given the unique features of this club style, raising the intriguing possibility that these may be exceptionally rare examples of ‘Island Carib’ (Kalinago) material culture, particularly as images of such clubs appear in seventeenth-century ethnographic accounts from the Lesser Antilles. This paper provides new data for these poorly known objects from early collections, revealing not only the type of wood from which they were carved (Platymisciumsp. andBrosimumcfguianense) and their probable dates of manufacture (c AD1300–1640), but also their possible provenance (strontium results are consistent with a possible range from Trinidad south to French Guiana).

Archive of digital boomer subbottom data collected during USGS cruise 05FGS01 offshore east-central Florida, July 17-29, 2005

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds647 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnell S. Forde ◽  
Shawn V. Dadisman ◽  
Dana S. Wiese ◽  
Daniel C. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
East Central ◽  
Central Florida

Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected offshore east-central Florida during USGS cruise 00FGS01, July 14-22, 2000

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds496 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice A. Subino ◽  
Shawn V. Dadisman ◽  
Dana S. Wiese ◽  
Karynna Calderon ◽  
Daniel C. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Reflection Data

A 7,290-Year-Old Bottle Gourd from the Windover Site, Florida

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen H. Doran ◽  
David N. Dickel ◽  
Lee A. Newsom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Organic Materials ◽  
Bottle Gourd ◽  
Lagenaria Siceraria ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Florida

A bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) recovered from a burial context at the Windover site (8 BR246) in east-central Florida has been dated directly to 7,290 ± 120 radiocarbon years B.P. This provides the earliest documentation of bottle gourds north of Mexico and demonstrates approximate contemporaneity with other eastern United States Cucurbitacae. Investigations of wet sites such as Windover, while requiring substantially greater consideration of conservation than in typical dry sites, greatly expands the recovery of organic materials enabling broader insights to prehistoric processes.

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