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Lake Okeechobee Artifacts - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 14th Sep, 2007 - 6:12am
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Lake Okeechobee Artifacts
Lake Artifacts Revealed
Florida's Lake Okeechobee has been hit hard by droughts this season, but low water levels have revealed a trove of treasures -- centuries-old artifacts of a past civilization. Archaeologists are now working at the site, collecting clues to a long-since-disappeared people.
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| "It looks like it's part of one of the American Indian settlements that were there - people that were intentionally interred at some point," said State Archaeologist Ryan Wheeler. The state has alerted the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes of the bones, but no decision has been made on their fate. No studies have been done on the human remains, but Wheeler said they likely were 500 to 1,000 years old, or possibly older. Davenport said an examination of the style of pottery found in the lakebed might actually do more to tell of the tribes who lived in the area than the bones themselves because the human remains are so fragmented. The boats uncovered, however are relatively intact. They include a steam-powered dredge believed to have been used to dig a canal, a steam ship whose remains are scattered across a mile and a half, a wooden motorized canoe, an early 1900s catfishing boat with a large one-cylinder engine and a fifth boat so badly decayed it is hard to determine its purpose. Wheeler said one of the vessels is 50 to 60 feet long. |
Fascinating. Bones that may be 500 to 1,000 years old all the way up to boats 100 years old. What are the stories behind them all?
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