Archaeological and Historical Conservancy

After the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy documented the significant sites in and around "Sam Jones" (Aripeka) Seven Islands ─ now Pine Island and Long Key ─ we were instrumental in preventing their destruction and in preserving Long Key as a Broward County Park . Beginning in 2005, AHC consulted on the archaeological management plan for the park and monitored wetland mitigation and construction of trails and buildings. AHC played an integral part in the design of the museum wing for newly constructed Long Key Nature Center , which opened in 2008. Master Plan for Long Key Natural Area The Exhibit Hall interprets the prehistory, history, and ecology of Long Key. A nexus of audio-visual, tactile, and interactive media take the visitor back into the day and the mind of the Tequesta Indians, through the period of European Contact to the Seminole Indians, and up to the turn of the 20th century when anthropologist, M. R. Harrington, conducted the first ...

By Robert S. Carr Gabinete de Arqueología, La Habana, Cuba Thursday, March 30, 9:00am Since 1998, several major discoveries have been made in South Florida, including the “Miami Circle”. This site represents the first evidence found of a prehistoric Tequesta structure cut into the limestone bedrock. The subsequent discovery of eleven similar features in 2005-2014, on the opposite bank of the Miami River confirmed that the ancient town of Tequesta was an elevated village on top of piers rising above the banks of the Miami River. A discovery of postholes on the New River in Fort Lauderdale in February 2017 provides evidence of a similar village pattern, where thousands of well preserved faunal bones and seeds also were discovered. Southern Florida encompassed at least five prehistoric canals. These canals are the longest prehistoric canals outside of Mexico. The AHC recovered radiocarbon samples from two of the canals. Overall, these discoveries demonstrate a stratif...

The Everglades Robert S. Carr, Timothy A. Harrington Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7385-9127-8 Pubdate: 3/12/2012 Details: 128 pages, 6.7 x 9.6 inches Paperback: $ 20.00 ( contact ) "A must read book for history of the Florida Everglades." --Amazon. The Everglades once blanketed a quarter of Florida. Stretching from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay, its saw grass prairies, mangrove swamps, and hammocks were home to a profusion of animals, plants, and prehistoric Native Americans, as well as Seminoles, Miccosukees, and Gladesmen of historic times. In 1904, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward ran for Florida governor with the political platform of creating farmland by dredging the Everglades and spilling its water into the ocean. By 1914, this spectacular natural feature was on the verge of destruction, and environmentalist May Mann Jennings led a grassroots movement to preserve Royal Palm Hammock. In the 1930s, Ernest Coe a...

Digging Miami Robert S. Carr Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4206-0 Pubdate: 9/30/2012  Details: 320 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover: $ 25.00 ( contact ) "A wonderful, moving narrative of the archaeology of greater Miami."--Paul George, editor of Tequesta "Amazing. In spite of the intense urban development of Southeast Florida, valuable archaeological contexts are still present and continually being discovered."--Randolph Widmer, University of Houston The pace of change of Miami since its incorporation in 1896 is staggering. The seaside land that once was home to several thousand Tequesta is now congested with roads and millions of people while skyscrapers and artificial lights dominate the landscape. Ironically, Miami's development both continually erases monuments and traces of indigenous people and historic pioneers yet also leads to the discovery of archaeological treasures that have lain undis...

Last year AHC archaeologists found a Caribbean Monk Seal tooth in Palm Beach. Several newspapers echoed the news, including Archaeology Magazine . Another tooth has been found in Tequesta site on the bank of the New River, Fort Lauderdale, showing the dispersal of the extincted Neomonachus tropicalis in prehistoric South Florida.

By Eliot Kleinberg - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer PALM BEACH — No one has seen a Caribbean monk seal for six decades, and nobody’s sighted one in Florida in nearly a century. Now archaeologists say they have found a prehistoric tooth from the extinct animal along the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach. They say it’s the first evidence ever that the seal lived in what’s now Palm Beach County. Caribbean Monk Seal tooth found in Palm Beach Archaeologists from the Broward County-based Archaeological and Historical Conservancy found the tooth this past month, executive director Robert S. Carr told the Palm Beach Post this past week from Davie. He said it’s 500 to 1,000 years old. “We didn’t do carbon dating, but (set its age) just based on the materials around it,” Carr said. He said his group is “99.9 percent sure” it’s from one of the long-gone seals; “the tooth is “very distinctive.” Carr also said i...