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Bullen, Ripley P. and James B. Stoltman
1972 Fiber-tempered Pottery in Southeastern United States and Northern Columbia: Its Origins, Context, and Significance. Florida Anthropological Society Publications Number 6.

Brown, Robin C.
1994 Florida’s First People. Pineapple Press, Sarasota.
ISBN:1-56164-032-8

Cordell, Ann S.
2004 Paste Variability and Possible Manufacturing Origins of Fiber-tempered Pottery from Florida. In “Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast,” edited by Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hayes, pp. 63-104. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Available: uapress.ua.edu

Goggin, John M.
1939     A Ceramic Sequence in South Florida. New Mexico Anthropologist 3(3–4):35–40.
1944a    A Tentative Formulation of Pottery Types for the Glades Area of Florida. Unpublished Manuscript. Florida State Museum. Goggin Reprints. Florida Museum of Natural History.
1944b   Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Florida Keys. Tequesta 1(4):13–35.
1948     Some Pottery Types from Central Florida. Gainesville Anthropological Association Bulletin 1:1–14.
1950     Stratigraphic Tests in the Everglades National Park. American Antiquity 15(3):228-246. DOI: 10.2307/276765
1952     Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida. Publications in Anthropology 47. Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven.REPRINTED IN 1998 BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA.
ISBN 0-8130-1634-7. Available: upf.com
1953    Seminole Pottery. In Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States, edited by James B. Griffin, pp. 200-202. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor.

Goggin, John M., and Frank H. Sommer, III
1949 Excavations on the Upper Matecumbe Key, Florida. Yale University Publications in Archaeology 41.

Griffin, James B.
1945     The Significance of the Fiber-tempered Pottery of the St. Johns Area in Florida. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 35(7):218–223.

Griffin, James B., and William H. Sears
1950     Certain Sand-Tempered Pottery Types of the Southeast. Prehistoric Pottery Types of the Eastern United States, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Griffin, James B., and Hale G. Smith
1949     Nocoroco, A Timucua Village of 1605 now in Tomoka State Park. The Florida Historical Quarterly 28(4):340–361.

Griffin, John W.
2002 Archaeology of the Everglades. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2558-2. Available: upf.com

Griffin, John W., and Hale G. Smith
1948     The Goodnow Mound, Highlands County, Florida. Unpublished Florida Board of Forestry and Parks. Contributions to the Archaeology of Florida. Florida Board of Forestry and Parks, Tallahassee.

Jennings, Jesse D., and Charles H. Fairbanks
1940     Pottery Type Descriptions. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Newsletter 2(2). Online

Kelly, Arthur R.
1938     A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Explorations at Macon, Georgia. Vol. 119. Bureau of American Ethnology 1. Washington, D.C.

Luer, George M. and Marian M. Almy
1980 The Development of Some Aboriginal Pottery of the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast of Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 33:207-225.
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Milanich, Jerald T.
1971    The Alachua Tradition of North Central Florida. Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Anthropology and History 17, Gainesville. Online
1994 The Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. ISBN 0-8130-1273-2. Online

Mitchem, Jeffrey M.
1986 Comments on Some Ceramic Pastes of the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast. The Florida Anthropologist 39:68 74.
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Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Ann S. Cordell
2011     Paste Characterization of Weeden Island Pottery from Kolomoki and Its Implications for Specialized Production. Southeastern Archaeology 30(2):288–310.

Sassaman, Kenneth E.
1993 Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. ISBN 0-8130-0670-6. Available: uapress.ua.edu

Saunders, Rebecca and Christopher T. Hays, editors
2004 Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
ISBN 0-8173-5127-2. Available: uapress.ua.edu

Scarry, John F.
1985 A Proposed Revision of the Fort Walton Ceramic Typology: a Type Variety System. The Florida Anthropologist 38:199 233. Read: ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu

Sears, William H.
1956     Excavations at Kolomoki. Vol. 5. Series in Anthropology. University of Georgia, Athens.
1957     Excavations on the Lower St. Johns River, Florida. Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Social Sciences 2. Online
1967    The Tierra Verde Burial Mound. Florida Anthropologist 20(1-2):25-73. Online

Sears, William H., and James B. Griffin
1950a    Fabric-Marked Pottery in Eastern United States. Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1950b    Fiber-Tempered Pottery of the Southeast. Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Smith, Hale G.
1948    Two Historical Archaeological Periods in Florida. American Antiquity 13(4):313–319. DOI: 10.2307/275299
1949     Two Archaeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida. Florida Anthropological Society Publications 1.

Stirling, Matthew W.
1936     Florida Cultural Affiliation in Relation to Adjacent Areas. In Essays in Anthropology Presented to A. L. Kroeber in Celebration of his Sixtieth Birthday. Books for Libraries Press, New York.

Thompson, Victor D., Wesley D. Stoner, and Harold D. Rowe
2008     Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the Southeastern United States: A Ceramic Compositional Study. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(2):191–213. DOI:10.1080/15564890802106591.

Wallis, Neill J.
2011 The Swift Creek Gift: Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Available: uapress.ua.edu

Wallis, Neill J. and Asa R. Randall, editors
2014  New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida. Florida Museum of Natural History, Ripley P. Bullen Series. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
ISBN 978-0-8130-4936-6. Available: upf.com

Wauchope, Robert
1966     Archaeological Survey of Northern Georgia with a Test of Some Cultural Hypotheses. Vol. 21. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D. C.

Willey, Gordon R.
1945     The Weeden Island Culture: A Preliminary Definition. American Antiquity 10(3):225–254. DOI: 10.2307/275128
1949a     Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Online
1949b     Excavations in Southeast Florida. Yale University Publications in Archaeology 42. Yale University, New Haven.

Willey, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips
1945     Negative Painted Pottery from Crystal River, Florida. American Antiquity 10(2):173–185. DOI: 10.2307/275113

Willey, Gordon R., and Richard B. Woodbury
1942     A Chronological Outline for the Northwest Florida Coast. American Antiquity 7(3):232. DOI: 10.2307/275482

Wimberly, Stephen B.
1960     Indian Pottery from Clarke County and Mobile County, Southern Alabama. Alabama Museum of Natural History 36. Alabama Museum of Natural History.

Worth, John E.
1992 Revised Aboriginal Ceramic Typology for the Timucua Mission Province. In Excavations on the Franciscan Frontier: Archaeology at the Fig Springs Mission. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
ISBN 0-8130-1119-1.Available: upf.com
2012   An Overview of the Suwannee Valley Culture. In Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World by Keith Ashley and Nancy Marie White, pp. 149-171. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Available:upf.com