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A 7,290-Year-Old Bottle Gourd from the Windover Site, Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Glen H. Doran ,
David N. Dickel  and
Lee A. Newsom
Glen H. Doran
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
David N. Dickel
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Lee A. Newsom
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Sciences, FL Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL 32611
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Abstract

A bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) recovered from a burial context at the Windover site (8 BR246) in east-central Florida has been dated directly to 7,290 ± 120 radiocarbon years B.P. This provides the earliest documentation of bottle gourds north of Mexico and demonstrates approximate contemporaneity with other eastern United States Cucurbitacae. Investigations of wet sites such as Windover, while requiring substantially greater consideration of conservation than in typical dry sites, greatly expands the recovery of organic materials enabling broader insights to prehistoric processes.

Résumé

Résumé

Una calabaza vinatera (Lageneria siceraria) descubierta en el contexto de un enterramiento en el sitio de Windover en la parte este de la Florida central ha sido fechada a 7,290 ± 120 años radiocarbonos antes del presente. Esto es la documentación más antigua para este tipo de cucúrbita en una localidad norte de Mexico, y demuestra la contemporanidad con Cucurbitacae de la parte este de los Estados Unidos. Investigaciones de sitios majodos como Windover, aunque necesitan más consideration de conservation que sitios secos, aumentan el descubrimiento de materiales organicos y permiten una mejor comprehensión de los procesos prehistóricos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 354 - 360
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1990

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