Event Details

Outside Influences, In-Place Change: Weeden Island to Safety Harbor

Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm

Location: Weedon Island Preserve, 1800 Weedon Dr NE St. Petersburg, 33702

Description: Join the Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society for their monthly meeting and a lecture by archaeologist Dr. Jeffrey Mitchem. For centuries, the Manasota/Weeden Island peoples along the Gulf coast lived a lifestyle that was well adapted to fishing, gathering, and hunting. They practiced rituals that included elaborately decorated pottery vessels, many made specifically for inclusion in burial mounds. Although we know few specifics about their beliefs, the distinctive pottery styles they created spread west along the Gulf Coastal Plain and into the Mississippi Valley. Beginning around A.D. 900, a change occurred across the Southeast, related to maize agriculture and possibly new religious and/or political beliefs. This Mississippian culture took hold in most of the Southeast, typically replacing earlier lifestyles. In the region between the Withlacoochee River and Charlotte Harbor, the Weeden Island/Manasota peoples resisted drastically changing their lifestyles, although they did adopt certain Mississippian traits, probably related primarily to religious and political beliefs.

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