Condominium Construction Florida Pre

Condominium Construction Florida Pre

Condominium Construction Florida Pre

The Weeden Island culture represents one of the many groups of the Late Woodland period in the southeastern region of North America. Occurring chronologically after the Hopewell mound builders and showing strong evidence of Hopewellian influence, this group occupied the area of most of the latter part of the first millennium A.D. The territory of the Weeden Island culture was marked by mounds and midden sites extending nearly the full length of the western coastline of the Florida peninsula and westward across to the eastern side of Mobile Bay in Alabama. Sites have also been discovered as far as 100 miles inland along major rivers such as the Tombigbee, Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Choctawatchee, and Suwannee Rivers.

Characteristics

The Weeden Island archaeological complex is best characterized by its distinct pottery styles. The pottery reflects a high level of skill in manufacture and firing and is considered the finest period of native Florida ceramics. The Weeden Island culture is best known from the incised, punctuated, and red-painted pottery which has been recovered from mounds and middens. The group also produced elaborate animal effigy pots. The mounds produced by this group seem to have served more than one purpose, but the primary use of these constructions was as burial mounds. Some mounds show indications of having been the site of charnel houses where bodies were ritually prepared for interment in mounds. The remains of powdered ocher were found at these preparations sites as well as being associated with interments within the burial mounds. Within the Weeden Island culture are many regional variants, such as the Cades Pond culture and the Fort Walton culture, which include characteristics which are exclusive to that region.