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A Preliminary Definition of Archaeological Areas and Periods in Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John M. Goggin
John M. Goggin*
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Department of Anthropology, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conn.
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The state of Florida is mainly a peninsula projecting some three hundred miles south of the continental North American land mass. This unique position has given the state a certain amount of isolation, as a result of which, and because of environmental factors, Florida has been able to participate in the Southeastern cultural picture and at the same time to develop characteristic local features.

Although Florida has had a long history of archaeological research, with an impressive bibliography of descriptive material, synthesis has only recently been attempted. Some early attempts were made to divide the state into archaeological areas but none were of any significance until M. W. Stirling's recent four-fold division into the Gulf Coast, Glades, St. Johns, and Northern Highland areas. This division has been found, in general, to be useful, needing only greater refinement.

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American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , October 1947 , pp. 114 - 127
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1947

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