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.

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.

Note on a Micoquian Tool from a Raised Beach in Morbihan

1956 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Henri Breuil
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Narrow Channel ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Vertical Position ◽  
Glacial Period ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Raised Beaches ◽  
Geological Position

During the years between 1932–40 I went many times to Carnac (Morbihan) to visit megaliths in that neighbourhood and copy the decorations on them. I was astonished to note, amongst the chipped stone tools in the museum there, a very small yellowish flint bifaced implement picked up by Zachary Le Rouzic on the island of Téviec, noted for the excavations and magnificent Mesolithic discoveries of M. and Mme. St.-Just Péquart. This, of course, was not a tool from their Mesolithic site, but was a stray find from the island, where it was found by Le Rouzic in the gravelly section near the neck of land joining the Quiberon peninsula. Téviec consists of two islands divided by a narrow channel of sea. The section is opposite to the mainland, on the bigger island forming the edge of this channel. It shows threé beds of sea-worn pebbles of medium and small size; the upper two beds are separated by red sand. In the uppermost bed, the pebbles have taken a vertical position, similar to those in the upper part (the so-called head) of the lower raised beaches of the English Channel. This phenomenon is due to the cryoturbation during a glacial period. The upper bed is pre-Würmian, though not necessarily very much so, for it suffered through cryoturbation during the Würmian stage. The angles of the stone implement are sharp, i.e. it had not been rolled—and it came therefore from the red sandy bed, that is from a late stage in the Riss-Würm, when the sea slightly retreated between two periods of slight rises in sea-level. This implement thus has some importance owing to its geological position. I visited the site with Zachary Le Rouzic on the ioth October, 1936, but I found no sign of worked stone tools in any of these levels, which are very slightly above the modern sea-level.

On a Rare Cercaria, Cercaria soparkari n.sp., (Transversotrematidae) from Lucknow, India

1971 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Larval Infection ◽  
Fresh Water Snail

About 100 specimens of the fresh-water snail, Melanoides tuberculatus (Muller), collected on 30th March, 1962 from “Kukrail”, a tributory of river Gomati, were examined for larval infection. One specimen was found infected with a unique cercaria belonging to the genus Transversotrema. The writer subsequently attempted to collect this cercaria from the same place and 1750 specimens of the said host were examined in the following years (1962–67) without success. Further, a large number of specimens of fishes of the genera Channa Gronov; Colisa Cuv. and Val.; Xenentodon Regan and Nundus Cuv. and Val., common in the tributary were also examined for metacercarial infection of this cercaria but none were found.

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