| 词条 | Aqui Esta Burial Mound |
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}} Aqui Esta Burial Mound (8CH68), also referred to as the Alligator Creek or Punta Gorda Mound, is a prehistoric sand burial mound located in Punta Gorda, Florida, United States. HistoryThe multi-use burial mound has been associated with the Calusa. Five burials excavated early in the 20th century by Wainwright may have been from this mound. In 1975 the mound, which was originally circular, measured {{convert|24.4|m|ft}} wide by {{convert|42.7|m|ft}} long and {{convert|2.1|m|ft}} high. The mound has been excavated by several archaeologists, as well as amateurs and pot hunters. Around 100 burials have been found, mostly secondary, sometimes consisting of just a skull and the long bones. While the mound was probably in continuous use, a mass burial of 35-40 individuals was found.[1] Ceramic and other artifacts recovered from the mound in 1975 by James MIller has made the Aqui Esta one of the most significant sites in peninsular Florida. Approximately 45 rare shell cups, along with exotic incised ceramics vessels from Fort Walton and St. John, both {{convert|200|mi}} to the north, were excavated.[2] The most recent discovery by the ceramics curator for the Florida Museum of Natural History, in 2005, were examples of Safety Harbor ceramics that employed a paste containing mica, a mineral found closest in the Appalachians in Georgia.[3] Luer concluded that the site correlates with the Safety Harbor Culture, 1000–1200.[2] Recent{{when|date=August 2018}} discoveries and theories by Martin Byers concerning the Hopewell Culture and Mississippian Culture indicate that Aqui Esta was a jointly created and maintained earthwork site used by trans-regional cult members.[4] The mound therefore may date to the period assigned by Byers, 200 B.C. References1. ^{{cite dissertation|last=Mitchem|first=Jefferey M.|title=Redefining Safety Harbor: Late Prehistoric/Protohistoric Archaeology in West Peninsular Florida|publisher=University of Florida|location=Gainesville, Florida|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076866/00001|date=1989|page=252–255}} {{US-archaeology-stub}}2. ^1 {{Cite journal|last=Luer|first=George M.|date=2002|title=The Aqui Esta Mound:Ceramic and Shell Vessels of the Early Mississippian-Influenced Phase|location=Tallahassee, Florida|publisher=Anthropological Publication No.15}} 3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Cordell|first=Ann S.|date=March-June 2005|title=Revisiting the Aqui Esta Mound (8CH68): Paste Variability in the Pottery Assemblage|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00027829/00203/107j|journal=The Florida Anthropologist|volume=58|issue=1–2|pages=105–120|via=University of Florida Digital Collections}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=The Real Mound Builders of North America: A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands 200 B.C. -1450 A.D.|last=Byers|first=Martin A.|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2018|location=New York, New York}} 2 : Archaeological sites in Florida|Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands |
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