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Meadows, Richard Keith, Jr. 1995 - Archaeological Investigations at the Baker Creek Site (8Hi5446): A Middle to Late Preceramic Archaic Occupation in the Hillsborough River Basin.
Abstract: Archaeological investigations of the Baker Creek Site (8Hi5446), conducted by Archaeological Consultants, Inc., of Sarasota, Florida during the summer of 1994, resulted in the discovery of over 16,000 lithic artifacts. During initial artifact processing, it became apparent that a detailed lithic analysis was necessary in order to assess the range of human activities that occurred at the site. This included documentation and description of all recovered cultural material, focusing on a morphological and functional analysis of lithic tool forms and a debitage analysis. In order to link the Baker Creek site to broader processes of environment, subsistence and settlement, five interrelated hypotheses were developed and tested. Implications of these hypotheses for Middle to Late Preceramic Archaic hunter-gatherer societies who inhabited the Hillsborough River Basin and the presence of an embedded lithic procurement strategy are addressed.
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