Snake island, a story of time, place, context and change
KVAHC presentation
- Venice, snake island is in the middle of the map
- Snake island site (8So2336): site discover in 1993-1994
- Snake island wasn't an island in the 1800's it was in between two bays and one led to the inlands
- From 1927-1936 the turner family had a house boat on the southern eastern end of snake island
- 1960 they moved the channel and cut it again, moving snake island to a different location
- Snake island had Australian pine trees
- 1999 an Australian pine is sitting on archaeological shells
- Low tide thing at exposed
- High tide things are Dundee 3 feet of water
- 1998 Susan whitgoo she was a ceramic specialist
- Some of the shell tools- columella hammers are a common site in the archaic period (go back 3000 years or more)
- Visit to snake island-
- Did shovel testing on the upland and found camellia hammers
- Spotted excavation area 3 by 1 meters
- Southwest corner of snake island pushes the shells in the waterway
- In 2013 the stumps are off shore and the water would be brown like black tea or crystal clear
- Snake island is the center of the universe