Saturday, January 21, 2006

Humans remains unearthed in Miami form picture of Tequesta Indian life

Ancient Florida history is meeting the modern building boom in downtown Miami, where archaeological excavations at two construction sites have unearthed 2,000-year-old human remains.

Archaeologists said the discoveries are helping them piece together what life was like for the ancestors of the Tequesta Indians, who lived at the mouth of the Miami River in what is now the Brickell section of Miami.

Archaeologists had previously found evidence of a village in the area, but not a cemetery. The remains are evidence of such burial grounds.


Update of an earlier blurb.