The Art and Archaeology of Florida’s Wetlands

Purdy, Barbara A.

doi:10.1201/9780203737149

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“…Burials furthest from the pond edge at time of excavation dated to the earliest period of mortuary pond use and those closest, more recent. Roughly 100 burials were undisturbed with fully articulated bones; ages ranged from infancy to over sixty-five, with 52% classified as subadults (Purdy 1991). Most individuals were buried within 24 to 48 hours after death (Doran 1992;Dickel 1988, Hauswirth 1991 in a flexed position, on the left side with heads oriented to the west, and pinned by sharpened stakes approximately 1m below the surface of the peat (Hauswirth et al 1994).…”

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Early Holocene morphological variation in hunter-gatherer hands and feet

Hoover

Berbesque

2018

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Background. The Windover mortuary pond dates to the Early Archaic period (6,800-5,200 years ago) and constitutes one of the earliest archaeological sites with intact and well-preserved human remains in North America. Unlike many prehistoric egalitarian hunter-gatherers, the Windover people may not have practiced a sex-based division of labor, rather they may have shared the load. We explore how mobility and subsistence, as reconstructed from archaeological data, influenced hand and foot bone morphology at Windover. Methods. We took length and width measurements on four carpal bones, four tarsal bones, and loadbearing tarsal areas (calcaneus load arm, trochlea of the talus). We analyzed lateralization using side differences in raw length and width measurements. For other hypothesis testing, we used log transformed length-width ratios to mitigate the confounding effects of sexual dimorphism and trait size variation; we tested between-sex differences in weight-bearing (rear foot) and shock-absorbing (mid foot) tarsal bones and between-sex differences in carpal bones. Results. We identified no significant between-sex differences in rear and midfoot areas, suggesting similar biomechanical stresses. We identified no significant between-sex differences in carpal bones but the test was under-powered due to small sample sizes. Finally, despite widespread behavioral evidence on contemporary populations for human hand and foot lateralization, we found no evidence of either handedness or footedness. Discussion. The lack evidence for footedness was expected due its minimal impact on walking gait but the lack of evidence for handedness was surprising given that ethnographic studies have shown strong handedness in hunter-gatherers during tool and goods manufacture. The reconstructed activity patterns suggested both sexes engaged in heavy load carrying and a shared division of labor. Our results support previous findings-both sexes had stronger weight-bearing bones. While male shock-absorbing bones exhibited a trend towards greater relative width (suggesting greater comparative biomechanical stress

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Early Holocene morphological variation in hunter-gatherer hands and feet

Hoover

Berbesque

2018

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“…Skeletal materials are unusually well preserved due to the anaerobic environment of the bog in which they were deposited. Population demography is well balanced between the sexes, and individual ages range from infancy to 65+ (Purdy, 1991). The Windover population were foodforagers and likely engaged in gender-based divisions of labor which emphasized short bursts of intense activity for males and repetitive endurance activity in females.…”

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Human occipital bone sexual dimorphism in an Archiac period archaeological population

Hoover¹

2017

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. The paper was rejected roughly a year later due to scope and collection issues. I revisited the paper in 2007 with an eye to updating and resubmitting with additional data but the project was triaged from the publication pipeline due to the work involved relative to other projects more relevant to my research interests at the time. The current preprint paper contains updated references on occipital bone sexual dimorphism-all limited to the condylar region rather than the full suite of variation in the region.

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“…AD 1260-1678 (Purdy 1991). Nevertheless, the mainstay of the diet was still fishing, hunting and gathering until the colonial period (Purdy 1987b;1991;Newsom 1987).…”

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“…Florida's wetlands have yielded a wealth of prehistoric wood sculpture, from the remarkable site of Key Marco, excavated in 1896 by Frank Hamilton Cushing and yielding some of the finest wood carvings known from the Americas, to over 100 carvings recovered from Fort Center, to the bird effigies at Belle Glade, among many others (Purdy 1991;Sears 1982;Schwehm 1983;Wheeler 1996). Most of these sites are concentrated in the eastern and southern part of the state, with a chronology spanning from as early as AD 400 through the earliest era of European contact, and encompassing various archaeological cultures (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%