Calusa People

Mar 12, 2012

A few years ago a new house was built on Brown’s Complex Mound 4, a part of the Pineland Site … Continue

Sep 5, 2010

These days, climate change is center-stage. Understandably most of the attention is on global warming and sea-level rise. Many wonder … Continue

Sep 5, 2007

Beginning early in 1566, Florida’s founder Pedro Menéndez de Avilés embarked on a far-reaching strategy to bring the native peoples … Continue

Dec 5, 2005

Despite the fact that the Pineland site is situated well south of the natural geologic range of stone suitable for … Continue

Jun 2, 2005

The identification of the Pineland site as the likely remains of the important 16th-18th-century Calusa community of Tampa (see June, … Continue

Mar 5, 2005

On May 14, 2005, at the 57th annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society in Gainesville, Merald Clark, John LoCastro, … Continue

Mar 2, 2005

Exciting archaeological discoveries often happen long after the excavation tools are put away. This is one reason why museum collections … Continue

Dec 3, 2003

As a follow-up by to my article in the December 2002 Friends newsletter (Vol. 1, No. 4), I’m pleased to … Continue

Dec 3, 2002

It’s perhaps amazing to realize that the historical “tracks” of the Calusa reach well beyond Florida, not just to Cuba … Continue

Sep 9, 2002

People have enjoyed eating clams for centuries. But only recently have scientists learned how to read climate information from the … Continue