Digging Miami

The pace of change of Miami since its incorporation in 1896 is staggering. The seaside land that once was home to several thousand Tequesta is now congested with roads and millions of people while skyscrapers and artificial lights dominate the landscape. Ironically, Miami's development both continually erases monuments and traces of indigenous people and historic pioneers yet also leads to the discovery of archaeological treasures that have lain undiscovered for centuries. In Digging Miami, Robert Carr traces the rich 11,000-year human heritage of the Miami area from the time o.

Chapter 6. European Contact: The Transition to Extinction.

Cover; Digging Miami; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Illustrations; Preface: More than Just Seashells; 1. Diggers, Scientists, and Antiquarians: History of Archaeological Research; Chapter 1. Diggers, Scientists, and Antiquarians: History of Archaeological Research; 1.1 Portrait of Jeffries Wyman; 1.2 Destruction of Miami Burial Mound 8DA14, 1897; 1.3 John Goggin in the Everglades, 1949; 1.4 WPA archaeologists excavating at Opa-Locka 1, 1934; 1.5 Dan Laxson at the Trail site; 1.6 Excavating the Cheetum site, 1971; 1.7 Discovery of the 1855 Key Biscayne survey marker.

1.8 View of the Granada site excavations, 1976Part I. Prehistoric Miami; Part I. Prehistoric Miami; Hermann Trappman, A Tequesta Family on the Miami River, 1983; Prehistoric sites of Miami-Dade County; 2. The First People: The Cutler Fossil Site; Chapter 2. The First People: The Cutler Fossil Site; 2.1 Archaeologists at the Cutler site, 1986; 2.2 Map of the Cutler site and excavation units; 2.3 Uncovering a jaguar mandible at the Cutler site; Table 2.1 Fire-altered bones from the Cutler Fossil site; 2.4 Bifaces and points from the Cutler site.

2.5 Limestone turtleback scraper from the Cutler site…