Gathering at Silver Glen

Community and History in Late Archaic Florida

Gilmore, Zackary I, Zackary I. Gilmore

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9780813055862
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BP, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late Archaic community of Silver Glen--one of Florida's most elaborate shell mound complexes--integrated people and places from throughout Florida by staging large-scale feasts and other public events.

Gilmore analyzes the composition and style of pottery at the site, revealing that many of the large, elaborately decorated vessels from the shell mounds were imports with nonlocal origins. His findings indicate that the people of Silver Glen frequently hosted large-scale gatherings that helped to create a sense of community among culturally diverse groups with homelands separated by hundreds of kilometers. The history of Florida's Late Archaic hunter-gatherers is shown here to be much more dynamic than traditionally thought.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Gathering at Silver Glen
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Gathering Places
• 1. Anonymizing Perspectives and Current Understandings of Florida’s Late Archaic Past
• 2. Making History in “Prehistory”: Things, Places, and Other Material Gathering Events
• 3. Late Archaic Depositional Narratives at Silver Glen
• 4. Orange Pottery Variation and the Multiple Modes of Late Archaic Interaction at Silver Glen
• 5. Pottery Provenance and the Social Scale of Silver Glen’s Orange Period Gatherings
• 6. Gathering History, Building Community
• Appendix A: Radiocarbon Data
• Appendix B: Orange Pottery Rim Profiles
• Appendix C: Orange Pottery Surface Motifs
• Notes
• References Cited
• Index