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Votes:0 De Soto Volunteers: 300 BC On January 13, 1997, a crew from the Southeast Archeological Center (Dr. Guy Prentice, Principal Investigator, Margo Schwadron , field director, Elizabeth de Grummond and Lou Groh) began a three week archeological survey and testing project at De Soto National Memorial . Hundreds of people volunteered to participate in the archeological project. The project, part of the Center's Regionwide Archeological Survey Program, was designed to locate, identify and evaluate archeological resources within the park (Schwadron 1996). Several particular research questions and survey goals were targeted: 1) testing of shell ridge features in the mangrove swamp to determine their nature and to determine if they were prehistoric or natural; 2) testing of the Marker Mound to deter Read More Go to Site
Votes:0 Feature Article E V E R G L A D E S N A T I O N A L P A R K Early Spanish accounts indicated that the Calusa had a complex social and political organization. Drawings by Colleen Anderson Calusa Artifacts: Remnants of a Vanished Culture I n 1896, on Marco Island in southwest Florida, archeologist Frank Hamilton Cushing discovered an amazing wooden statuette of a panther six inches in height. In Cushing's words, it was "carved from a hard knot, or gnarled block of fine, dark brown wood. It had either been saturated with some kind of varnish, or more probably had been frequently anointed with the fat of slain animals or victims. To this, doubtless, its remarkable preservation was due." As the head of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition, Cushing was in search of artifacts of the Calusa Indians who in Read More Go to Site
Votes:0 "Year of the Indian" poster by Kathleen and Jim Mazzotta, courtesy of the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium, Fort Myers. STAFF COLLECTIONS RESEARCH EXHIBITS RANDELL RESEARCH CENTER FRIENDS OF THE RRC RRC ENDOWMENT PUBLICATIONS RECOMMENDED BOOKS & VIDEOS PLACES TO GO COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS IAPS BOOKS ARCHIVED NEWSLETTERS CONTACT US ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Read More Go to Site
Votes:0 Historical Society of North Brevard, Inc. 301 South Washington Avenue P.O. Box 6199 Titusville, FL 32782 (321) 269-3658 THE WINDOVER ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT Joseph L. Richardson INDEX Discovery Uniqueness Brain Tissue Findings Social Order Violence Fabric Health Artifacts Plants Observations Today Radiocarbon Dating SITE LAYOUT DISCOVERY When the 3-year-old died, her parents placed her favorite toys in her arms, wrapped her in fabric woven from fibers of native plants, and buried her body in the soft, muck bottom of a small pond. Some 7,000 years later, when a young archaeologist uncovered her tiny remains, the toys--a wooden pestle-shaped object and the carapace of a small turtle--were still cradled in her arms. Most remarkable was the state of preservation of the child's bones an Read More Go to Site
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