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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Weedon Island Preserve Alternative Name: McKeithen culture, Weeden Island Preserve
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 33.887 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: St. Petersburg, FL
Latitude: 27.847600N  Longitude: 82.6071W
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Weedon Island Preserve
Weedon Island Preserve submitted by AKFisher : Wiki: (Ebyabe) Weedon Island Preserve. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Mound Burial Complex and Ancient Settlement in Pinellas County, Florida.
The Weedon Island Perserve is the type site for the Weedon Island Culture, a Woodland era (200-700AD) culture exemplified by incised and point decorate ceramics. The culture is thought to have been influenced by Hopewell cultural influences of mound burials with funerary offerings.

Weedon Island is the site of several burial mound complexes. Some of these were excavated in the 1920's by J Walter Fewkes. Sites in Florida and Georgia exhibit the traits first seen in the finds of Weedon Island, which is now thought to have been a relative backwater of the cilture.
Today the island is the site of a nature and cultural preserve. In addition to extensive foot and kayak trails throughout the preserve, there is a museum highlighting both the natural and archaeological importance of Weedon Island. Several trails are wheelchair accessible. The mound complexes are a National Historic Landmark.
The preserve website is found here.

Note: 1100 year old canoe. Oldest ocean-going water craft yet found in Florida.
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Weedon Island Preserve
Weedon Island Preserve submitted by AKFisher : 1923 photo of Dr. Leslie Weedon at the excavation of mounds on Weedon Island in Florida. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Weedon Island Preserve Trails to download by Andy B on Sunday, 09 January 2011
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Weedon Island Preserve, including the associated Gateway Tract, is an expansive 3,000-acre region on Tampa Bay in north St. Petersburg comprised mostly of marine ecosystems with some uplands. Indigenous peoples, including those during the "Weeden" (alternate spelling) Island Cultural Period, occupied this site for thousands of years. A varied modern history also is part of the Preserve's legacy. Today, the Preserve protects this wide diversity of natural and cultural resources for current and future generations.

Preserve Hours:
Open Daily
7:00 am - Time posted, approximately 15 minutes before sunset
Open Holidays

Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center
The Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center provides an overview of the rich marine resources of the Preserve and the interrelationship of the environment with the prehistoric, historic, and modern cultures that once inhabited the Preserve. The facility includes a small gift shop, resource center, interactive exhibit gallery, and artist exhibitions.

Center Hours:
Open Thursday - Saturday
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Closed Holidays

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45 ft long Ancient Canoe Struck in Muck of Weedon Island Florida by bat400 on Saturday, 10 May 2008
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ST. PETERSBURG Stuck somewhere in the millennial muck of Weedon Island is a significant piece of history. A 45-foot canoe, buried for about 10 centuries, more or less, and used by a long-dead culture of Native Americans, worked its way to the surface, and now authorities are trying to figure out how best to preserve it.

The vessel is carved out of a single pine tree, and archaeologist say it was used to paddle over the open, sometimes rough waters of Tampa Bay — unlike the other ancient canoes uncovered in Florida over the years, which were used to ply the calmer waters of lakes and rivers. With the back end of the canoe broken off, it measures 39 feet, 11 inches. If the missing piece was attached, archaeologists estimate 5 more feet would be added to the length.

"It's the longest prehistoric canoe ever found in the state of Florida," said Weedon Island Preserve Center manager Phyllis Kolianos.

"I think it's fascinating," she said this morning. "I think it's a very important find, and it's very significant. It gives us an understanding that these weren't simple people living here, that they were probably trading with other cultures."

The dugout is the first pre-Columbian seagoing vessel uncovered in Florida. It points to a culture that thrived in what would become the Tampa Bay area and traded with others along the Gulf of Mexico coast and beyond. The influence of the Weedon Island culture stretched to places as far away as Georgia, archaeologists say.

Kolianos said carbon dating of the canoe shows it to be about 1,100 years old. "This was a heavily populated area," she said. The culture blossomed between the 3rd century and 1200.

The canoe first was found seven years ago when a beachcomber searching for old bottles spotted part of the vessel protruding from the ground. Because the preserve didn't have a history center at the time, the discovery went unreported for years, Kolianos said. Finally, it came to light, and a team of state and local archaeologists including Kolianos mounted a plan to excavate the vessel.

In December, about 10 archaeology students, volunteers and state archaeologists plodded through the mangroves to the site. They quickly built a makeshift dam with sandbags and plastic to keep the tide out, and they began digging. They uncovered the vessel's rotting gunwales and dug beneath it to take measurements. Under the keel, they found a long pole about 3 inches in diameter. The pole could have been used to propel the canoe, or it might have been used to roll it onto the shore.

Ultimately, the goal is to excavate the canoe, chemically preserve it and put it on display. But doing that is difficult and expensive. To be properly treated, the canoe has to sit in a vat of chemical preservative for three years, she said. Nowhere in the state is there a vat that big.

So, for now, the artifact, as significant as it is, lies in an undisclosed location beneath a layer of muck — actually submerged during high tides — safe and sound.

For more, including a photo, see The Suncoast News.
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