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SPANISH RIVER COMPLEX: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SETTLEMENT PATTERNING IN THE EASTERN OKEECHOBEE SUB-AREA, FLORIDA

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1972
Summary:
Through controlled stratigraphic excavations, surface collections and published reports, a coastal Belle Glade settlement pattern and cultural complex is reconstructed. This site was continually occupied for a period of about 1,000 years. A population increase and an increase in socio-political complexity coincides with a change in the subsistence base at this complex during the Glades I period. This same economic change is noted in many middens along the Florida east coast and is believed to have been caused by the introduction of agriculture. This was accompanied by a religious movement in which mound construction and burial within these mounds were practiced. The diffusion of this economic-ceremonial complex was from the Lake Okeechobee area where it developed during the Hopewell period.
Title: THE SPANISH RIVER COMPLEX: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SETTLEMENT PATTERNING IN THE EASTERN OKEECHOBEE SUB-AREA, FLORIDA.
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Name(s): FUREY, JOHN F. JR.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Ferguson, Leland G., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 151 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Through controlled stratigraphic excavations, surface collections and published reports, a coastal Belle Glade settlement pattern and cultural complex is reconstructed. This site was continually occupied for a period of about 1,000 years. A population increase and an increase in socio-political complexity coincides with a change in the subsistence base at this complex during the Glades I period. This same economic change is noted in many middens along the Florida east coast and is believed to have been caused by the introduction of agriculture. This was accompanied by a religious movement in which mound construction and burial within these mounds were practiced. The diffusion of this economic-ceremonial complex was from the Lake Okeechobee area where it developed during the Hopewell period.
Identifier: 13500 (digitool), FADT13500 (IID), fau:10345 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida--Lake Okeechobee Region
Florida--Antiquities
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