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MARINE SHELLS IN MIDWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND THE DETERMINATION OFTHEIR MOST PROBABLE SOURCE

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Date Issued:
1976
Summary:
Busycon contrarium has a wide distribution through both time and space in Midwestern Archaeological sites. The areas of maximum occurrence ·for this shell are the coastal areas from Monroe to Gulf County along the Florida Gulf Coast. The most probable source of this shell for trade to Midwestern archaeological sites was the Apalachicola Bay area. As this shell was traded inland to Midwestern Archaeological sites it was consistently incorporated into a sacred class of artifacts. Its utilization as a ceremonial vessel in busk or Green Corn ceremonies is the most probable reason for its wide distribution through both time and space in so many different cultures of the Eastern United States.
Title: MARINE SHELLS IN MIDWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND THE DETERMINATION OFTHEIR MOST PROBABLE SOURCE.
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Name(s): HALE, HOWARD STEPHEN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Sears, William H., 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: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 189 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Busycon contrarium has a wide distribution through both time and space in Midwestern Archaeological sites. The areas of maximum occurrence ·for this shell are the coastal areas from Monroe to Gulf County along the Florida Gulf Coast. The most probable source of this shell for trade to Midwestern archaeological sites was the Apalachicola Bay area. As this shell was traded inland to Midwestern Archaeological sites it was consistently incorporated into a sacred class of artifacts. Its utilization as a ceremonial vessel in busk or Green Corn ceremonies is the most probable reason for its wide distribution through both time and space in so many different cultures of the Eastern United States.
Identifier: 13789 (digitool), FADT13789 (IID), fau:12560 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Subject(s): Indians of North America--Antiquities
Mollusks--United States--Geographical distribution
United States--Antiquities
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