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This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Florida, in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Florida . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Crystal River State Archaeological Site is a 61-acre (250,000 m 2) Florida State Park located on the Crystal River and within the Crystal River Preserve State Park.The park is located two miles (3 km) northwest of the city of Crystal River, on Museum Point off U.S. 19/98.
Mound 6 was also built on top of an earlier habitation area, and was also given a layer of light-colored sand before the mound was started. Several layers were added over the years and evidence for habitations structures was found on the successive summits. Artifacts found in the mound date to 1250 to 1400, during the Late Lake Jackson II phase ...
Big Mound City is the site of one of four recognized monumental Native American earthworks built in the Lake Okeechobee Basin area of southeastern Florida. [2] Dating from the Glades period III (circa 1000 AD), it is a combination of at least nine mound structures and a ridge complex, including radiating causeways and crescent-shaped man-made ponds. [3]
Windover Pond is one of a number of sites in Florida excavated since 1970 that have led to a major reassessment of the Archaic period in Florida. Jerald T. Milanich states that Windover has provided "unprecedented and dramatic" information about the early Archaic people in Florida, and that the Windover site may be "one of the most significant ...
Miami Circle at Florida Dpt of State Historical Resources; Miami Circle at Florida Heritage, Dpt of State; Miami circle: essential facts "What was the Miami Circle?". Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). September 28, 1999. University of Florida archaeologist Jerald Milanich suggests the Miami Circle may be a septic-tank drainage system.
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The mounds were built by the people of the Pensacola culture, a regional variation of the Mississippian culture. [3] The Fort Walton culture was named for the site by archaeologist Gordon Willey, but later work in the area has led archaeologists to believe the Fort Walton site was actually built and used by people of the contemporaneous Pensacola culture.