A West Indian Ax from Florida
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2561060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Goggin (Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology), Irving Rouse (Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology) |
| Year | 1948 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4Part1 |
| Pages | 323-325 |
| Publication date | 1948-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/275303 |
| OpenAlex | W2331945520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
A stone ax of West Indian type is included among the collections from north Florida in the Florida State Museum (cat. no. 3535). In view of the ever-interesting question of Antillean-Floridian relationships, this specimen seems worth considering in some detail.Information in the Florida State Museum catalog indicates that the ax was received in 1914 from A. W. Sargent of Gainesville who found it on the surface near Newnan's Lake, Alachua County. This is about five miles east of Gainesville. It was accompanied by the base of a spearhead, an arrowhead, and a sherd of St. Johns Check Stamped pottery (cat. nos. 3536-3538).The ax has a roughly rectangular blade; shallow, grooved neck; and broad butt, with a large ear-like projection on either side of the butt and a pair of smaller ones on top (Fig. 55). In cross section, one side is strongly convex and the other partially flattened, so that the artifact might more properly be called an 'adze.' Its length is 15.8 cm. and its width 10.9 cm
Ancient history · Archaeology · Artifact (error · Blade (archaeology · Geography · Pottery · Section (typography · State (computer science · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Computer Science · Geology · History · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1964 - 1988 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |