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Although Spanish records note a Tequesta village on Cape Sable, Calusa artifacts outnumber Tequesta artifacts by four to one at its archaeological sites. On a map the Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz published in 1630 in Joannes de Laet 's History of the New World , the Florida peninsula is labeled "Tegesta" after the tribe. [ 7 ]
Further examination of the artifacts found at the site, particularly the shell tools, shark teeth, and other items of aquatic origin, showed that they matched perfectly with artifacts known to be from a local tribe, the historic Tequesta. The Tequesta were a tribe who were believed to be primarily nomadic, hunting fish and alligators in the ...
Artifacts going back 7,000 years have been found at the site, along with postholes, grave sites, human remains and other evidence of substantial settlement by the Tequesta Native American tribe.
The Tequesta, valuing their dead, placed them in a special place to decompose, then cleaned and prepared the bones for interment in a burial mound. [5] A 1938 excavation unearthed a wooden figure dating to 700 CE; [5] this figure was called the "Keeper of the Mound" by amateur archeologists and the local press.
Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Native American village that could date back 2,000 years in Miami. It's being called one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the US. The Miami Herald ...
Approximate territory of the Mayaimi tribe. The Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century. In the languages of the Mayaimi, Calusa, and Tequesta tribes
Miami’s historic preservation board’s move disappointed activists and representatives of Native American tribes who had hoped the city would assert authority to protect the site from construction.
A bronze statue of a Tequesta hunter, woman and child stands on the Brickell Bridge in downtown Miami as a tribute to the indigenous tribe that occupied the mouth of the Miami River 2,000 years ago.