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A Cuban Origin For Glades Pottery?
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A Cuban Origin For Glades Pottery?

Vernon James Knight and John E Worth
Methods, Mounds, and Missions, pp.193-206
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series, University Press of Florida
10/19/2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683402138.003.0009

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Abstract

During the 1940s and 1950s, both US and Cuban archaeologists noted striking similarities between decorated pottery of the Glades region of Florida and that of central Cuba. In explaining these similarities, Cuban archaeologist Rene Herrera Fritot went farthest in suggesting an Antillean origin for peoples of the Glades region. This chapter revisits the question on the basis of improved descriptions and chronologies of cultural phenomena in both areas. With current archaeological evidence, the Glades tradition and the Cantabria tradition are separated in time by two centuries at minimum. When viewed in the proper temporal context, therefore, ceramic traditions from South Florida and Cuba appear to have essentially nothing in common, providing no reason to posit any degree of direct or sustained cultural contact across the Florida Straits during the Glades tradition time frame.

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