In a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Neill Wallis and Victor Thompson present new findings on mound construction at Garden Patch, a Middle Woodland period site on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Using geophysics, they found evidence for numerous depositional events, as well as possible traces of structures on the mound summit. Their results shed light on the social dimensions of mound building and mound use during this time.
For more about Garden Patch, visit Florida Archaeology’s Excavated Collections.
Wallis, Neill J. and Victor Thompson
2019 Early Platform Mound Communalism and Co-option in the American Southeast: Implications of Shallow Geophysics at Garden Patch Mound 2, Florida, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24:276-289. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.01.022