
Published online:
23 January 2020
Published in print:
07 May 2019
Online ISBN:
9781683401056
Print ISBN:
9781683400783
Contents
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Background Background
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Recent Findings Recent Findings
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Phase 1: Early Belle Glade I/Late Archaic Period (cal. 800–540 BC) Phase 1: Early Belle Glade I/Late Archaic Period (cal. 800–540 BC)
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Phase 2: Belle Glade I to Early Belle Glade II/Early to Middle Woodland Period (cal. 21 BC–AD 534) Phase 2: Belle Glade I to Early Belle Glade II/Early to Middle Woodland Period (cal. 21 BC–AD 534)
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Phase 3: Belle Glade II/Middle to Late Woodland Period (cal. AD 256–AD 1151) Phase 3: Belle Glade II/Middle to Late Woodland Period (cal. AD 256–AD 1151)
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Phase 4: Protohistoric and Early Historic Period (approximately AD 1513–1700) Phase 4: Protohistoric and Early Historic Period (approximately AD 1513–1700)
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Phase 5: The Seminole Period through the Present Day (1700s–Present) Phase 5: The Seminole Period through the Present Day (1700s–Present)
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Discussion Discussion
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Watery Places and Mounds in the Okeechobee Region Watery Places and Mounds in the Okeechobee Region
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Watery Places, Death, and a Tiered World Cosmology Watery Places, Death, and a Tiered World Cosmology
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Conclusions Conclusions
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References References
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Chapter
2 Mounds, Watery Places, and Death in South Florida: The Fort Center Mound-Pond Complex
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Pages
24–46
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Published:May 2019
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Seinfeld, Daniel M., 'Mounds, Watery Places, and Death in South Florida: The Fort Center Mound-Pond Complex', in Ryan Wheeler, and Joanna Ostapkowicz (eds), Iconography and Wetsite Archaeology of Florida's Watery Realms (Gainesville, FL , 2019; online edn, Florida Scholarship Online, 23 Jan. 2020), https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400783.003.0002, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter by Daniel Seinfeld revisits William Sears’s 1960s excavations at Fort Center, specifically looking at ideas about the mortuary pond. Seinfeld provides a reassessment of earlier ideas about a mortuary platform, the date of the pond burials, and new ways to think about the Fort Center mortuary pond in light of our understanding of Southeastern Native American worldviews.
Keywords:
Fort Center, William Sears, mortuary platform, pond burial, mortuary pond, Native American worldviews
Subject
Prehistoric Archaeology
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