[Aztlan] UPDATE ON THE MIAMI CIRCLE

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

The important archaeological site known as the Miami Circle was saved  
from developers by the state of Florida in 2000 and a cultural museum  
will go up on the site. It is probably the work of the nomadic  
Tequesta culture. The radio-carbin dates place this site at 2000  
years old. Among the items excavated are shell tools, stone axe  
heads, human teeth, a shark skeleton, dolphin skull and a sea turtle.
Two galena artifacts were found and galena comes from Missouri, the  
Mississippi Valley, Illinois and Kentucky and was used for white  
pigment and to make beads and pendants. The exact source of the Miami  
Circle galena is Central Missouri.
Tools have been found made from deer feet and shark teeth and a  
decorated bone artifact with engraved circles.

News from Indian Country has this update with photos on the site and  
its circular posts;
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php? 
option=com_content&task=view&id=2812&Itemid=116

Here is a tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/2yl9pl


Mike Ruggeri's Mississippians and Mound Builders including the Adena  
and Hopewell
http://tinyurl.com/276d8z