<p>When Columbus arrived in the New World, 100,000 people (or more) already lived in Florida and had been here for thousands of years. These primitive people built mounds for ceremonial and practical purposes. Though most mounds have succumbed to the bulldozer, many still exist and may be visited. Author I. Mac Perry tells where to them, describes what was found when they were excavated, and explains what recovered artifacts tell us about the lives of the ancient people who left them behind. Organized by county, with sidebars, charts, photographs and drawings.</p>

Indian Mounds You Can Visit: 165 Aboriginal Sites of West Coast Florida

History

Perry, I. Mac

Americas

Great Outdoors Publishing Co.

<p>Imagine my surprise when I discovered my home sits on an ancient Indian mound. Imagine my surprise when I found that 100,000 Indians were living in Florida when the Europeans arrived in the 1500s, and that they had been here for 12,000 years… and today they are gone--extinct--no descendants. I had to know more! From the Everglades to the Suwannee River I searched Florida's west coast and discovered 165 aboriginal sites. From nomadic hunters of giant mastodons to architects of sophisticated temple towns and complex canal cities, these naked "Ancient Floridians" fished the bays, produced the finest wood carvings and pottery in North America, and buried their dead with ritualistic Black Drink ceremonies. They left no record of their existence, only hundreds of strange mounds which are today being destroyed at an electrifying rate. Here, at last, is their story as revealed by the discoveries found in their mounds!</p>

Indian Mounds You Can Visit: 165 Aboriginal Sites on Florida's West Coast

Great Outdoors Publishing Company

Black Conquistador: The Narvaez Expedition in Florida (Historic Adventure Series, No. 1)

Literature & Fiction

Boca Bay Books

Mark of the Shaman

United States

Booklocker.com, Inc.

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