Northwest Florida Woodland Mounds and Middens
Northwest Florida Woodland Mounds and Middens
The Sacred and Not So Secular
Traditional analyses of Swift Creek and Weeden Island middens in northwest Florida have focused on the environmental and quotidian aspects of their of their placement and use. In operative models, middens are the “secular” and burial mounds are the “sacred” features on the settlement landscape. Data is present from recent investigations of a particular kind of midden, the ring midden. These suggest that the presence of putative exotic and ritual objects in ring middens and their plazas, as well as their proximities to burial mounds reflect ceremonial functions and practices occurred at the ring sites.
Keywords: Swift Creek, Weeden Island, midden, ceremonial, ritual
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