Miami historic preservation board moves to protect Tequesta site | MiamiHerald.com: "Miami’s historic preservation board ... rejected a developer’s plan to carve out and display a prehistoric remnant of a recently uncovered Tequesta village in downtown Miami, and instead set the stage for potentially designating the site a protected historic landmark. The board’s decision, encapsulated in three separate votes after a seven-hour hearing, was a big win for preservationists and archaeologists who have been pressing the developer, MDM Group, to redesign a planned commercial and hotel project to accommodate the finds, regarded as some of the most significant traces of an indigenous settlement in the country. But what exactly will happen on the site remains very much in the air...."
Tequesta were the 'Adam and Eve' of Florida | State | Bradenton Herald: "...the recent finds on the north bank of the river -- thousands of precise postholes carved in the bedrock in circular and linear patterns that specialists believe mark the foundations of elevated dwellings and boardwalks -- have shifted the understanding of the Tequesta. Together with the equally unexpected discovery 16 years ago of the probably ceremonial Miami Circle on the river's south bank, the village site directly opposite it confirms that the Tequesta possessed higher degrees of engineering skill and organization than once believed. "They were more sophisticated than we thought,'' said Miami-Dade College historian Paul George. "They traded with people from far away. They had some kind of mathematical precision. These circles are interesting because there is great sophistication to them, and since 1998 we had picked up very little else about the Tequesta...."
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