Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

Summer 7-21-2026

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

July 2026

Department

Anthropology

College Granting Degree

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Department Granting Degree

Anthropology

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Katharine Napora

Abstract

This project utilizes five sediment core samples from the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse archaeological (8PB35) site in northern Palm Beach County, Florida (four core samples derived from areas where cultural material has been found and one core from a nonanthropogenic area). These sediment core samples were analyzed using a variation of a tested charcoal analysis methodology often used with lake and peat bog cores, but in this case, the cores come from an upland coastal environment. The findings of this project have shown efficacy of the modified methodology for locating charcoal peaks in habitation zones found in core strata and as well as the strata prior to the habitation levels. Findings suggest that that Indigenous communities around the inlet may have been using fires to conduct land clearing before the establishment (or re-establishment) of towns. This project indicates that this modified methodology can contribute to our knowledge of the occupational history of the Jupiter Inlet 2 (8PB35) site and other sites in similar environments.

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