Event Details

Archaeology Close to Home by Joshua Marano

Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm

Location: Deering Estate Auditorium

Description: Archaeology Close to Home
Biscayne National Park Updates: Maritime Archaeology and Totten Key after Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy caused significant shoreline erosion and archeological site damage at the "Totten Key Complex" (BISC-48) on Totten Key in Biscayne National Park. The archaeological site is a Tequesta Indian settlement dating to pre- and post-Spanish Contact. The site includes a long shoreline earthen midden and a stone burial mound (the only known Native American burial site in the park and the only stone burial mound known in the continental US). Neither the earthen midden, nor the burial mound, have been the subject of any professional archaeological investigations in the past and very little is currently known about them. The earthen midden is a shoreline feature and the extraordinarily high tides associated with Hurricane Sandy caused substantial erosion of the site. It has also left the eroded edge of the midden in increased danger of further loss, as it has destabilized what remains. The full extent of the site is unknown and it is therefore unknown how much is left of the site. Complete loss could happen during the next storm event.

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