Norwood culture
The Norwood culture was a subculture or subperiod[1] of the late Archaic culture.
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The Norwood culture was located in the Apalachee region, a forested and hilly part of what is now north Florida and was typical of other Archaic cultures using triangular-shaped projectile point knives which showed notches for attaching stone implements to shafts. It is widely accepted that Archaic cultures began using hand held spears to atlatls to more effectively bring down animals for clothing and consumption.
The Norwood culture was one of the first in North America to make pottery. The pottery was tempered with Spanish moss or strands of fiber from the palmetto, and decorated by making stick impressions on its outer surface prior to firing. Much of the Gulf coastal shell middens date to this Archaic period. Some sites have been covered by rising sea level, while other sites have been destroyed by modern borrowing activities and development.[2][3]
Sources
- ^ Kratt, Henry J. Jr. (2005). The Lewis Camp Mound (8Je182), Jefferson County, Florida (PDF) (M.A.). Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
- ^ Wisenbacker, Michael (1998). "Aboriginal Settlement in the Apalachee Region of Florida". Florida Geological Survey Special Publication No. 46. Global Underwater Explorers. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
- ^ Carbone, Victor A. (March–June 1983). "Late Quaternary Environments in Florida and the Southeast". The Florida Anthropologist. 36 (1–2): 3–18. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
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cultures
- Alachua
- Belle Glade
- Cades Pond
- Caloosahatchee
- Clovis
- Deptford
- Fort Walton
- Glades
- Leon-Jefferson
- Manasota
- Mount Taylor
- Norwood
- Orange period
- Paleo-Indians
- Pensacola
- Safety Harbor
- Santa Rosa-Swift Creek
- St. Johns
- Suwannee Valley
- Swift Creek
- Weeden Island
sites
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- Apalachee Bay
- Aqui Esta Burial Mound
- Bay Pines
- Bear Lake Mounds
- Big Heart West
- Big Mound City
- Big Mound Key-Boggess Ridge
- Bird Hammock
- Blueberry
- Bowers Bluff Middens
- Bubba Midden
- Burns Lake
- Butcherpen Mound
- Cayo Pelau
- Cayson Mound and Village
- C. J. Ostl
- Crystal River
- Cutler
- Demere Key
- Devil's Den Cave
- Dismal Key
- Douglass Beach
- Fort Center
- Fort Walton Mound
- Galt Island
- Garden Patch
- Green Mound
- Halfway Creek
- Helen Blazes
- Hickory Ridge Cemetery
- Hinson Mounds
- Horr's Island
- Indian Fields
- J&J Hunt
- Josslyn Island
- Jungle Prada
- Key Marco
- Kimball Island Midden
- Lake Jackson Mounds
- Lake Pithlachocco
- Letchworth-Love Mounds
- Little Salt Spring
- Madira Bickel Mound
- Mark Pardo Shellworks
- Miami Circle
- Mill Cove
- Monroe Lake
- Mound Key
- Mount Elizabeth
- Mount Royal
- Mount Taylor
- Mullet Key
- Myakkahatchee Creek
- Naval Live Oaks Cemetery
- Nocoroco
- Ormond Mound
- Ortona Prehistoric Village
- Otis Hare
- Page-Ladson
- Persimmon Mound
- Pierce
- Pineland
- Platt Island
- Plaza
- Pompano Beach Mound
- Portavant Mound
- Porter's Bar
- Princess Mound
- River Styx
- Roberts Island
- Rock Mound
- Rookery Mound
- Ross Hammock
- Safety Harbor
- Shark River Slough
- Shell Bluff Landing
- Spruce Creek
- Third Gulf Breeze
- Thomas Creek
- Turner River
- Turtle Mound
- Twin Mounds
- Upper Tampa Bay
- Useppa Island
- Velda Mound
- Waddells Mill Pond
- Wakulla Springs
- Yent Mound
- Yon Mound and Village
remains
- Related
- Pre-Columbian era