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Digital Modeling And Non-Destructive Technological Examination Of Artifacts And Safety Harbor Burial Practices At Picnic Mound 8hi3, Hillsborough County, Florida, James Bart Mcleod
Digital Modeling And Non-Destructive Technological Examination Of Artifacts And Safety Harbor Burial Practices At Picnic Mound 8hi3, Hillsborough County, Florida, James Bart Mcleod
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This project reexamines field notes and artifacts from a Works Progress Administration excavation of the Picnic Mound (8Hi3), a Safety Harbor-period burial mound located in Hillsborough County, Florida. The goals are to reconstruct burial practices digitally using a Geographic Information Systems approach to test Ripley Bullen's model of Woodland and Safety Harbor burial practices, and demonstrate ways that modern technologies can be used to provide new information from past investigations. This thesis also presents new information from a pXRF study about prehistoric ceramic manufacturing in the Tampa Bay area, and discusses additional archaeological resources associated with the Picnic Mound. This …