Bayshore Homes Project
For the past decade, CGCAS under the direction Dr. Bob Austin, has been conducting archaeological survey and test excavations of various components of the Bayshore Homes site (8PI41) located in the Parque Narvaez subdivision on Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg. This site contains the remains of a large platform mound, two burial mounds, and a large shoreline midden.
Since 1998, CGCAS has conducted a test excavation at the Kuttler Mound, performed surveys of the Parque Narvaez neighborhood and adjacent Abercrombie Park, documented private collections, and presently is conducting test excavations within the central portion of the Bayshore Homes site. This work has substantially expanded the physical boundaries of the site and provided new information on site chronology, subsistence, and settlement patterning.
In 2007, CGCAS received a grant from the Florida Department of State to fund specialized studies of ceramic artifacts and faunal remains from the site, obtain radiocarbon dates, and obtain soil cores from the shoreline midden to determine if portions of that feature were redeposited prehistorically. The Society continues to conduct testing at Bayshore Homes and is processing samples and artifacts at the lab facilities at Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center in St. Petersburg.
