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An Authentic Glass Artifact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John W. Griffin
John W. Griffin*
Affiliation:
Florida Park Service Gainesville, Florida
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In view of the vast number of spurious glass artifacts known, it is of interest to note a genuine example which came to light recently in excavations in Florida.

The scraper illustrated with this note (Fig. 27) is made of heavy green glass, and is a perfectly good aboriginal piece in form and workmanship. The length is 57 mm., the width 36 mm. The greatest thickness, 11 mm., lies near the steep nose at a point where original surfaces are present on both bottom and top. Undoubtedly, the material was derived from a heavy green glass bottle.

The artifact was found in test excavations at the site of San Luis de Talimali, several miles west of the city of Tallahassee, Florida. San Luis was the major Spanish settlement in the Apalachee area during the seventeenth century, and at the time of its abandonment and destruction in 1704 consisted of a fort and blockhouse, a mission, and a number of dwellings inhabited by both Spaniards and Indians.

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American Antiquity , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , July 1949 , pp. 56 - 57
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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References

1 Boyd, Mark F., “Enumeration of Florida Spanish Missions in 1675,” The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 181–8Google Scholar, St. Augustine, 1948.

2 A summary of the Leon-Jefferson materials1 is given in Smith, Hale G., “Two Historical Archaeological Periods in Florida,” American Antiquity, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 313–19, 1948.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Moore, C. B., “Miscellaneous Investigations in Florida,” Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 13, pp. 307–8, Philadelphia, 1905.Google Scholar

4 Information from Charles H. Fairbanks.