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Fortunately, the large sherd sections from body aad rim sections of typical vessels permit aore adequate study. The more striking examples are illustrated for the site. On the other hand, the characteristic R&ulla oheok stamped category is still very parch in evidence. It may be that many of these sherds really belong to a few vessels broken and incorporated in the few small shell middeo oontexts. Although the sample is small, it is considered that the fuller representation of Ileaden Island types at White Springs is a significant deviation~from the norm of oiher campsites along the glint. Analysis of the pottery from the "burial pit", the larger saucer-like shell deposit, in basal portions appears to give some indications of a stratigraphic succession. The upper shell midden accumulation, including the portions which slopped out over and mantled the shoulders gives the usual strong dominance of the small neat check stamped, with frequent scored liaes paralleling the rim base, the check stamping showlng both and above the scored or indented line. In the upper 12 - 16 inohes, inoluding the midden on shoulders, 114 study sherds yield 52.3$ check stamped (Takulla), 33.3% plain smooth or burnished, l2.3$ of the nkoughened", and less than 2$ of an Incised ware (Veeden Island Incised). Swift Creek Complicated Stamped is absent and the other decorative complex of Teeden Island is negligible. Contrasted with the above, in the basal portions, where the intruded burial was found inserted into the side of the dugout, -42-
the suall cheek stamped wart becomes a second choice in comparison with the plain smoothed ware and the strong showing of tha usual Needen Island decorative complex. Of 225 study sherds from the lower shell level, only 28.8% ark ascribed to Nakulla Check, 55.5% is the suoothed or burnished plain, 7.7% Roughened, and 8% belonging to the decorated types of Beeden Island, identified as follows: 1 Swift Creek 7 Carabelle Rurcto.te 3 Keith Incised 4 Carabelle Incised 2 Tucker Ridge Pinched 1 Interior Red Aint It does not seem possible that the time required to fill this small saucer with shell incident to successive %laubakes~@ would require any protracted period. The site might have been occupied for a season, however , or may have been revisited and used seasonally for a few years, and during this saall interval some cultural change is observable. Comparison of the Lower Flint River with Northwest Florida Gordon R. Killey utilized the ubiquitous Kakulla Check stamped ware as a time uarkar and diagoOsti0 to separate Besdeo Island I from Beeden Island II. There were other minor changes in the early to late picture of developing Beeden Island as set forth by him. For one thing, the “late Swift Creek Complicated Stamp” disappears in the terminal portions of TJeeden Island -43-
Page 1 and 2: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LABORATORY OF
Page 3 and 4: EBEFACE University of Gsorgia Labor
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION SIWV~ of the Jim Woodr
Page 7 and 8: The lower F3.int, from the junction
Page 9 and 10: expanse showing on the west and nor
Page 12 and 13: asseshled in the laboratory. So lit
Page 14 and 15: u...iuportant feature in connection
Page 16 and 17: Burial No. 8 was without long bones
Page 18 and 19: pear-shaped, perforated shell came
Page 20 and 21: of burning. No furniture was found
Page 22 and 23: The few artifacts listed above do s
Page 24 and 25: Vessel shapes indicated are bowls,
Page 26 and 27: exhibited apparently the same Check
Page 28 and 29: Comparison of the collections from
Page 30 and 31: Weeden Island Development iv thz Lo
Page 32 and 33: parties of the Smithsoniar ?nst:‘
Page 34 and 35: canflwnce had not yet been cleared
Page 36 and 37: Florida Coast, along uith the grit
Page 38 and 39: Nakulla Check serioa would show fai
Page 40 and 41: Some of the "Roughened" category st
Page 42 and 43: had been a srrall sand burial’ so
Page 44 and 45: I:ontgomery Meld, and other lower F
Page 46 and 47: a separate paper. Our concern in th
Page 48 and 49: intermittently to catzp, to hunt an
Page 50 and 51: The intervening spacas botwecn the
Page 54 and 55: oooupations in northwost.Florida. T
Page 56 and 57: I . large shell middens some five m
Page 58 and 59: 16” Dia. PLATE I 6” . 4 PLATE 2

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