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    Shell Point is an unincorporated community in Wakulla County, Florida, United States. Shell Point is located on the northern edge of Apalachee Bay, approximately...
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  • Shell Point can refer to: Shell Point, Florida, an unincorporated community Shell Point, South Carolina, a census-designated place Shell Point (Washington)...
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    Florida peninsula. Some sites also have sand or sand-and-shell mounds associated with shell rings. Sites such as Horr's Island, in southwest Florida,...
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  • Dismal Key (category Shell middens in Florida)
    southwest coast of Florida has many large artificial structures known as shell works, made of shells piled up by human activity. Shell works are found from...
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    Conch (redirect from Conch shell)
    snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point on both ends)...
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    Historic Spanish Point is a 33-acre (13 ha) museum and environmental complex located in Osprey, Florida at 337 North Tamiami Trail. The museum includes...
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    turtle Rodeo: Silver Spurs Rodeo Shell: Horse conch Soil: Myakka soil Song: "Old Folks at Home" State day/week: Pascua Florida Stone: Agatized coral Tortoise:...
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    Turtle Mound (category Shell middens in Florida)
    Richard; Kincaid, Dwight (January 2004). "The Vascular Flora of Five Florida Shell Middens". Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 131 (1). Torrey Botanical...
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    is an exception, as it reaches a high point of 20 feet (6.1 m) above sea level. This height is due to the shell mounds built on the island during more...
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    "Sanibel Island Shelling and Beaches". Retrieved July 16, 2009. "Sanibel Public Library". Sanibel Public Library. Special To Florida Weekly (October 22...
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    Midden (redirect from Shell mound)
    Shell mounds are also credited with the creation of tropical hardwood hammocks, one example being the Otter Mound Preserve in Florida, where shell deposits...
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    Miami Circle (redirect from Brickell Point)
    River Circle, Brickell Point, or The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site, is an archaeological site in Brickell, Miami, Florida. It consists of a perfect...
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  • with shell rings in the United States are in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida. Puerto Hormiga - Late Archaic shell ring...
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    Scallop (redirect from Shell of Saint James)
    Debbie (2000). The Art of Shelling: A Complete Guide to Finding Shells and Other Beach Collectibles at Shelling Locations from Florida to Maine. Old Squan Village...
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  • Society excavated a shell axe workshop on the island in 2006. Spaniards from Cuba began fishing along the coast of southwestern Florida in the 17th century...
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    Seashell (redirect from Sea shell)
    A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea...
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    Devil's Den Cave (category Archaeological sites in Florida)
    Devil's Den is a solution sinkhole near Williston, Florida. It has a small opening in the ground leading to a large cavern, partially filled with water...
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    Archaeology, edited by J.E.Morrow and C.G.Gnecco. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Raff, Jennifer (February 8, 2022). "A Genetic Chronicle of...
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    sand (as opposed to shell middens) first appeared in the St. Johns culture region around 100 CE. As was common throughout Florida, mounds were used for...
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    elaborate pottery, conch shell gorgets and cups, stone statuary, and Long-nosed god maskettes. The Calusa peoples, of southern Florida, carved and painted...
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    Horr's Island (category Shell rings)
    the south side of Marco Island in Collier County, Florida. The site includes four mounds and a shell ring. It has one of the oldest known mound burials...
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    Shell works are large and complex assemblages of shell found in southwest Florida. Shell works include mounds and other deposits, with features described...
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  • 1994). "Sam's Cutoff Shell Mound and the Late Archaic Elliott's Point Complex in the Apalachicola Delta, Northwest Florida". The Florida Anthropologist. 47...
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    Green Mound (category Shell middens in Florida)
    one of the largest Pre-Columbian shell mounds, or shell middens, in the United States. Located in Ponce Inlet, Florida, the peak of the mound is the highest...
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    Mound Key Archaeological State Park (category Shell middens in Florida)
    kingdom, which extended over numerous shell midden islands they made up and down the southwest coast of Florida. It is also believed by most researchers...
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    The Southernmost Point Buoy is an anchored concrete buoy in Key West, Florida that claims to mark the southernmost point in the continental United States...
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    Windover Archeological Site (category Archaeological sites in Florida)
    site and National Historic Landmark in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, United States on the central east coast of the state. Windover is a muck...
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    Indigenous people of the Everglades region (category History of Key West, Florida)
    for transportation, as evidenced by shell mounds in and around the Everglades that border canoe trails. South Florida tribes often canoed through the Everglades...
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  • The Florida Maritime Museum is a museum, sponsored by Manatee County Clerk of Circuit Courts, located on almost 4 acres (1.6 ha) of land known as the...
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    Spruce Creek Mound Complex (category Shell middens in Florida)
    historic archeological site in Port Orange, Florida. The mound complex, major earthworks built out of earth and shell middens, was constructed by ancient indigenous...
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