Archaeology of Northern Florida, A.D. 200-900: The McKeithen Weeden Island Culture.Jerald T. Milanich, Ann Cordell, Vernon J. KnightJr. , Timothy A. Kohler, and Brenda J. Siglerlavelle. 1997. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. xviii + 222 pp., references, index, 75 photographs, 37 tables. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 1-800-226-3822.

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-177
Author(s):  
Karl T. Steinen
Keyword(s):  
Weeden Island

From Early Village to Regional Center (Phase 2)

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-154
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Pluckhahn ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Warm Period ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
Crystal River ◽  
Southern Florida ◽  
The Village ◽  
Weeden Island ◽  
Small Platform

The village at Crystal River expanded greatly in size and permanence in Phase 2, which began sometime between around AD 200 and 300 and ended by around AD 500. This growth may have owed partially to a rise in sea level associated with the warmer temperatures of the Roman Warm Period, which might have made life on the seaward islands more difficult. The exchange of Hopewell exotics faded in this interval, but the societies of the Gulf Coast appear to have witnessed a fluorescence, as indicated by the widespread exchange of Swift Creek pottery and Weeden Island pottery. Crystal River was peripheral to these pottery traditions, but it may have been an important nexus between these and the Glades tradition of southern Florida, specifically with regard to the exchange of craft goods manufactured from marine shell. The gulf coast fluorescence is also indicated by a heightened pace of the construction of mounds. At Crystal River, three small platform mounds were initiated in this interval, clearly differentiating it from its peers in the region.

The Weeden Island Culture: A Preliminary Definition

1945 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon R. Willey
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Major Portion ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
Florida Gulf Coast ◽  
Weeden Island ◽  
Existing Data

This paper presents a major portion of the existing data concerning the Weeden Island complex of the Florida Gulf Coast. The most important sources of these data are the writings of the late Clarence B. Moore which deal with the results of several years of investigation of northwest and west Florida and adjacent regions. In the course of these investigations, Moore surveyed and excavated well over one hundred sites along this coast. Sources of secondary importance are various smaller exploration reports of S. T. Walker, F. H. Cushing, J. W. Fewkes, M. W. Stirling, and the present writer. In addition, available but unpublished notes and collections on Florida and reports dealing with geographically and culturally related areas of the Southeast were consulted.

Kolomoki Burial Mounds and the Weeden Island Mortuary Complex

1953 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Author(s):  
William H. Sears
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Weeden Island ◽  
Chattahoochee River

Kolomoki is about six miles from the Chattahoochee River, in extreme southwestern Georgia. One of the larger southeastern sites, it covers approximately three hundred acres, including a rectangular truncated pyramidal temple mound 56 feet high, a plaza about 40 acres in extent, and 7 dome shaped mounds ranging in height from 4 to 20 feet. Three of the latter mounds have been excavated, two of which, D and E, were burial mounds and supplied parts of the data for this study (Sears, 1951b). The third excavated mound probably covered the site of a ceremonial structure and crematory area (Larsen, n.d.).

Provenance of Weeden Island “sacred” and “prestige” vessels: implications for specialized ritual craft production

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neill J. Wallis ◽  
Ann S. Cordell ◽  
Erin Harris-Parks ◽  
Mark C. Donop ◽  
Kristen Hall
Keyword(s):  
Craft Production ◽  
Weeden Island

The Johns Island Site, Hernando County, Florida

1950 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelaide K. ◽  
Ripley P. Bullen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Lower Zone ◽  
Large Stone ◽  
Additional Work ◽  
Secure Data ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Fresh Water Snail ◽  
Weeden Island

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.

Size Matters

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun E. West ◽  
Thomas J. Pluckhahn ◽  
Martin Menz
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Wide Spacing ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
Weeden Island

Kolomoki was one of the largest villages of the Middle and Late Woodland periods in the American Southeast. Located in southwestern Georgia, the site features a circular village plan nearly a kilometer in diameter which is centered on a large open plaza. This chapter introduces the term “hypertrophic village” to describe Kolomoki and, by extension, villages of similarly exaggerated size. New insights from recent excavations covering Kolomoki's transition from Swift Creek to Weeden Island pottery suggest that Kolomoki grew from a relatively compact to hypertrophic village beginning around the sixth century A.D. and culminating a century or two later. The wide spacing between domestic units both enabled and constrained social cohesion, and may have afforded the community at Kolomoki unrivalled symbolic power. The construction of Kolomoki's hypertrophic village may have been a strategy related to settlement shifts that recent work suggests took place throughout the region in the seventh century A.D.

The Materiality of Signs: Enchainment and Animacy in Woodland Southeastern North American Pottery

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neill J. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Middle Woodland ◽  
Middle Woodland Period ◽  
Weeden Island ◽  
Coded Messages

AbstractArchaeological examinations of symbolic meaning often have been hampered by the Saussurean concept of signs as coded messages of preexisting meanings. The arbitrary and imprecise manner by which meaning is represented in material culture according to Saussure tends to stymie archaeological investigations of symbolism. As an alternative, archaeologists recently have drawn on Peirce’s semiotic to investigate how materiality is bound to the creation of meanings through the process of signification. This study examines how the symbolism expressed in pottery of the Middle Woodland period southeastern United States, Swift Creek Complicated Stamped and Weeden Island effigy vessels, might be better explained as icons and indexes that were enlisted to have particular social effects. Examining the semiotic potentials of these objects helps explain their apparent uses and the significance of alternative representations of the same subjects.

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