A central element of AWIARE’s mission is to provide opportunities for research at Weedon Island and the greater Tampa Bay region. The dissemination of the results of this research to the archaeological community, as well as the public, also is critical to achieving our mission. Since our inception in 2008, we have sponsored and/or provided funding for one Ph.D. dissertation, three MA theses, and a BS Honours thesis with three dissertations and three MA theses currently in progress. AWIARE board members and students also have published several research papers and made presentations at professional meetings, all focused on the archaeology and prehistory of Weedon Island and Tampa Bay. The following is a list of these publications and presentations with links to those that are available on-line.
Arthur, John, Robert Austin, Wendy Edwards, Timothy Horsley, Phyllis Kolianos, David Morehead, Sharlene O’Donnell, Christina Perry Sampson, Elizabeth Southard, and Brent Weisman
2016 Breaking New Ground: Archaeology of Domestic Life at the Weedo(e)n Island Site, Pinellas County, Florida. Poster presented at the 81st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL. https://www.academia.edu/24305930/
Austin, Robert J.
2011 Doing Archaeology Publicly: The Bayshore Homes Project, Florida. Present Pasts 3:35-41. https://presentpasts.info/articles/10.5334/pp.39/
2020 “Its Origin Is Steeped In Mystery”: The Sorry Saga of St. Petersburg’s Shell Mound Park. The Florida Anthropologist 73:113-139. https://www.academia.edu/44270138/
2020 Spanish Gunflints from Florida, USA. Gunflints-Beyond the British and French Empires 11:3-20. https://www.academia.edu/42376792/
Austin, Robert J., and John W. Arthur
2018 Breaking New Ground at Weedon Island. FHSAI Adventures in Florida Archaeology 3:60-63. https://myfloridahistory.org/fhsai/magazine/2018
Austin, Robert J., and Jeffrey M. Mitchem
2014 Chronology and Site Formation at Bayshore Homes: Examining the Woodland-Mississippian Transition on the West Coast of Florida. Southeastern Archaeology 33:68-86. https://www.academia.edu/10421829/
Austin, Robert J., Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Brent R. Weisman
2011 Refining the Tampa Bay Late Prehistoric Radiocarbon Chronology. Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville.
2014 Radiocarbon Dates and the Late Prehistory of Tampa Bay. In New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida, edited by Neill J. Wallis and Asa R. Randall, pp. 94-120. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. https://www.academia.edu/7608307/
Brittingham, Bethany
2017 The Craft of Marine Shell Bead Production in Pre-Columbian Florida. Poster presented at the 69th annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, St. Petersburg.
Draskovich, Heather
2017 Investigating Safety Harbor Pottery Function within the Weeden Island Site (8PI1). Poster presented at the 69th annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological society, Jacksonville.
2021 Rethinking Settlement Patterns at the Weeden Island Site (8PI1) on Florida's Central Gulf Coast. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Douglass, McKenna L.
2021 Ware and Tear in Ancient Tampa Bay: Ceramic Elemental Analyses from Pinellas County Sites. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa
Duke, C. Trevor
2019 The Potter’s Body: Methods for Assessing Specialization and Potting Skill in the Lower Southeast. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.
Duke, C. Trevor, Neill J. Wallis, and Ann S. Cordell
2019 Pots with Purpose: Examining Mortuary Craft Specialization on the Late Pre-Columbian Gulf Coast. Paper to be presented at the 84th Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference, Albuquerque.
2021 Networks of Embodied Practice: Personhood, the Body, and Potting Skill in the Lower Southeast. Paper presented at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. https://www.academia.edu/49044640/
Edwards, Wendy
2015 Weedon Island: Determining Seasonal Occupation with Micromorphic Gastropods, Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Florida Academy of Sciences, St. Leo, Florida and the Florida Anthropological Society Meeting, Sarasota, Florida.
Hesterberg, Stephen, Kendal Jackson, and Susan Bell
2022 Climate Drives Cascading Regime Shifts Across Subtropical Estuarine Ecosystems. PNAS 119(3):e2121654119.
2023 Geoarchaeology and Coastal Morphodynamics of Harbor Key (8MA15): Indigenous Persistence at a Partially Inundated Native Shell Mound Complex in Tampa Bay, Florida. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.45 Jackson, Kendal
2018 Between Land and Sea: Deep Time Historical Ecology in the Tampa Bay Watershed. Paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, St. Petersburg, FL.
Jackson, Kendal, Greg R. Brooks, and Rebekka A. Larson
2021 Of marsh and mangrove: Coupled biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of 20th century wetland conversion in Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida (USA). Anthropocene 34 100295. https://www.academia.edu/48982413/
Jackson, Kendal, Elizabeth Southard, Sharlene O'Donnell, and John Arthur
2018 Estimating crown conch (Melongena corona) tissue weight from archaeological shell measurements: An allometric methodology for coastal historical ecological research. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21:107-116. https://www.academia.edu/38327714/
Jackson, Kendal, Thomas Pluckhahn, and Victor D. Thompson
2021 A Deeper look into Platform Mound Composition at the Safety Harbor Site (8Pi2), Tampa Bay Estuary. Paper presented at 73rd annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society.
Jackson, Kendal, Ping Wang, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Jaime A. Rogers, and Victor Thompson
2023 Stratigraphic Framework, Paleoenvironments, and Indigenous Terraforming of Inshore Estuarine Subbasins in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Journal of Coastal Research 39(5):779-815.
Jackson, Kendal, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, C. Trevor Duke
2020 Invisible Things Forgotten: A Multi-Proxy Study of Wetland Plant Use at a Precolumbian Village on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Journal of Ethnobiology 40(4):569-589.
Jackson, Kendal, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Jeffrey T. Moates, and Kassie Kemp
2019 Revisiting Stanley Mound (8MA127): A Sand Burial Mound in the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast Interior. The Florida Anthropologist 71(2):95-109.
Jackson, Kendal and Thomas J. Pluckhahn
2019 A First Millennium AD Vegetation History from the Crystal River Site (8CI1), Florida. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 0:1-18. DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2018.1531958.
Kennedy, Michael J.
2013 Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Geological and Archaeological Deposits at Weedon Island, Tampa Bay, Florida. BS Honours Thesis, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CA.
Kolianos, Phyllis E.
2019 Wood Preservation Dilemmas of Florida’s Prehistoric Saltwater Sites: Key Marco and Weedon Island. In Iconography and Wet Site Archaeology of Florida’s Watery Realms, edited by Ryan Wheeler and Joanna Ostapkowicz, pp. 67-81. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
2020 The Archaeology of the Anclote River Region, Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 73:273-307.
Kolianos, Phyllis E., and Richard W. Estabrook
2010 Prehistoric Coastal Habitation and Early Maritime Travel on Old Tampa Bay. Basis 5: Proceedings of the Fifth Tampa Bay Area Scientific Information Symposium, edited by S. T. Cooper, pp. 505-513. Tampa Bay Estuary Program, St. Petersburg. https://tampabay.wateratlas.usf.edu/upload/documents/BASIS5-Proceedings.pdf
Mitchem, Jeffrey M.
2012 Safety Harbor: Mississippian Influence in the Circum-Tampa Bay region. In Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World, edited by Keith Ashley and Nancy Marie White, pp. 172-185. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. https://www.academia.edu/6780307/
Morehead, David
2015 The Analysis of Archaeobotanical Flotation Methods. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Florida Academy of Sciences, St. Leo and the Florida Anthropological Society Meeting, Sarasota, Florida.
Nostrom, Rachel Victoria
2014 Portable X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Pottery at the Bayshore Homes Site in Pinellas County, Florida. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6481&context=etd
O’Donnell, Sharlene K.
2015 The Weedon Island Seascape: Zooarchaeological Findings at Weeden Island Archaeological Site (8PI1). MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
2020 Discovering the Bayscape at Weedon Island during the Safety Harbor Period: A Zooarchaeological Analysis at the Weeden Island Site. The Florida Anthropologist 73:141-177.
Pluckhahn, Thomas, Sofia Almeida, and Juliana Whittingslow
2021 A Review of the 1948 Excavations of Griffin and Bullen at the Safety Harbor Site (8PI2), with Special Attention to Architectural Patterning. Paper presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society.
Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Neill J. Wallis, and Victor D. Thompson
2020 The History and Future of Migrationist Explanations in the Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands with a Synthetic Model of Woodland Period Migrations on the Gulf Coast. Journal of Archaeological Research 28:443–502
Pluckhahn, Thomas, J. Kendal Jackson, and Jaime A. Rogers
2022 “Let Us All Enjoy the Fish”: Alternative Pathways and Contingent Histories of Collective Action and Governance Among the Maritime Societies of the Western Peninsular Coast of Florida, USA, 100-1600 CE. Frontiers in Political Science 4:804084. DOI:10.3389/fpos.2022.804084.
Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Kendal Jackson, and Jaime A. Rogers
2021 Hidden in Plain Sight: Digital Documentation of Cockroach Key (8HI2), A First Millennium Native American Mound Complex on the Western Coast of Florida, USA. Studies in Digital Heritage 5(2):107-130.
Rogers, Jaime A.
2019 Investigating the Late Woodland Climate of Old Tampa Bay, Florida. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7685&context=etd
2020 Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Shells: New Approaches in Aging Mollusks. Paper presented at meeting of the Florida United Malacologists (FUM), Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, FL.
Rogers, Jaime, and Kendal Jackson
2021 Intertidal Archaeology at the Cabbagehead Bayou Site (8HI6698): An Island Shellwork in Upper Tampa Bay Estuary. Paper presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society.
Sampson, Christina Perry
2018 Late Pre-Columbian Craft and Community at the Weeden Island Site, FL. Paper presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC.
2019 Safety Harbor at the Weeden Island Site: Late Pre-Columbian Craft, Community, and Complexity on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/149830
Sampson, Christina Perry, and Timothy J. Horsley
2019 Using Multistaged Magnetic Survey and Excavation to Assess Community Settlement Organization: A Case Study from the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast of Florida. Advances in Archaeological Practice 8:53-64. https://www.academia.edu/42274507/
Southard, Elizabeth, and Sharlene O’Donnell
2013 Harvesting the Bay: Subsistence at Weedon Island, Florida. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa, the Florida Anthropological Society, Tallahassee, and the Society of Ethnobiology, Denver.