Shell Mound - Summary of Information

When Friends hosted the “Shell Mound - Plants and Peoples” walk with the Cedar Key Garden Club, we realized how many different resource items about Shell Mound are here on Friends website. Here is a  summary:

• Where is Shell Mound?
• Solstice Feasts and Other Gatherings – An 8-page article by Friends member Dr. Ken Sassaman in Adventure in Florida Archaeology
• Friends Summer Solstice Celebrations -- 2019, 2021
• Friends Winter Solstice Celebrations, 2017, 2018 , 2019, 2021
  
• Shell Mound: A Portal into Another World -- A 10-page booklet, it provides insights into the lives of the ancient people who resided here and those who visited for ritual celebrations.
  
• Interpretive Stations Along the Trail – Scroll down to the section with this title and click on each photo to enlarge them one-by-one and read the information in summary form.
  
• Planning a Visit to Shell Mound? – Information about what you will see when you visit
• Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey 2013-2014: Shell Mound and Cedar Key Tracts – A 277-page technical report, it documents one part of the ongoing effort of the University of Florida Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology to inventory, sample, and interpret the archaeological record of aboriginal coastal settlement on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida.
• Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey 2014-2016: Shell Mound and Cedar Key Tracts – A 420-page technical report, it expands knowledge about a variety of National Register-eligible sites on the Refuges.
• A Video of the Milky Way taken at Shell Mound
• Shell Mound-Hog Island paddling map
• Shell Mound – Long Cabbage Islands paddling map