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Two Historical Archaeological Periods in Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Hale G. Smith*
Affiliation:
Florida Park Service Sebring, Florida

Extract

In the past year through excavations of sites and examination of various collections, there have appeared elements in a late context that do not follow or conform to the archaeological traditions known for Florida up to this time. On the east coast the collections of material excavated by W. J. Winter gave us new data on the late period around St. Augustine and its cultural affiliations to the Georgia coast. This has been named the St. Augustine Period. In the excavation of a Spanish mission site3 in Jefferson County by the Archaeological Survey of the Florida Park Service there appeared elements sufficiently different in time and content to name a new period the Leon-Jefferson.

Here follows a discussion and summary of the characteristics of the two periods.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

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