Florida Public Archaeology Network

Climate change threatens not only the future of Florida’s barrier islands, but all they hold about the past.

Turtle Mound, the tallest shell mound in the mainland United States, is an example of what it looks like when proactive measures are taken to preserve and monitor a coastal mound. But for this mound and hundreds of Indigenous cultural sites in Florida, archeologists are asking how long they can race against erosion.

Archeologists looking at a former Clearwater cemetery said that they have found a total of 29 grave shafts during the excavation process.

Archaeologists are searching for potential unmarked graves on a site in Clearwater.

“Zion Cemetery isn’t lost – Zion Cemetery was erased.”That was the message from one University of South Florida archaeologist at a recent presentation at…