CALUSACALUSA NEWSNEWS NEWSLETTER OF THE SOUTHWEST PROJECT RANDELL RESEARCH CENTER FLORIDA M USEUM OF N ATURAL H ISTORY NUMBER 10 • NOVEMBER 2001

Teaching Pavilion to be Built at Pineland Stans Foundation Grant Paves Way for New Development Phase by William Marquardt

THE STANS FOUNDATION has taken the receptions and musical entertainment. lead in helping the Randell Research A walking trail will also be con- Center develop its teaching and research structed. Attractive signs along the Top: Architect’s preliminary concept drawing of facilities. A grant of $105,000 from the trail will explain various aspects of open-air teaching pavilion for the RRC. Stans Foundation, plus $25,000 from Pineland’s 2000-year human past. (Drawing by Jeff Mudgett.) the Maple Hill Foundation, $10,000 The pavilion will be a major step from Michael Hansinger, and $1,000 forward for the Randell Center. Up to Bottom: Plan view of pavilion, activity area, from Bill Marquardt added up to now, there has been no place for visiting and restrooms. (Drawing by Jeff Mudgett.) $141,000. This was matched by the school children to go in case of inclem- State of Florida, for a total building ent weather except back to their bus. fund of $282,000. Construction begins Nor have we been able to offer our tion. The testing project was contin- in winter, 2002. guests a cool drink of water or a com- ued by our second annual summer Our teaching pavilion will provide a fortable place to watch a video or a archaeological field school, in coopera- covered, open-air learning space for up lecture. We have had a chemical toilet tion with Florida Gulf Coast Univer- to 50 people, with storage space for on site for three years, but our new sity, and extended through fall, 2001 teaching and research equipment, public facility will provide more pleasant and with the help of a grant from the rest rooms, a parking area, water, and convenient, handicap-accessible rest Wentworth Foundation. New informa- electricity. In the pavilion, we will be rooms. tion from this research will add more able to teach formal classes, give public In March, 2001, archaeological test pieces to the puzzle of the Pineland programs, demonstrate replica- excavations began in the areas of the site Site Complex and help us interpret the tion, show videos, and even have to be impacted by our planned construc- site for our visitors. ❂ NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 1 Randell Research Center Becomes Reality A Three-Year Perspective from the Site Archaeologist by Corbett Torrence

OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, the Randell Research Center at Pineland has moved steadily closer to its goal of becoming a permanent research and education facility. It has been a great privilege for me to have represented the RRC as site archaeologist. Here are some of the highlights. First, some background. In 1994, following several seasons of research and education at Pineland by the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), Donald and Patricia Randell donated 53 acres of the Pineland Site Complex to the University of Florida Foundation (UFF) to establish a permanent center for research and education. This gracious gift includes the central portion of the site, encompassing Topographic map of the Pineland Site the Brown’s Mound complex, the Randell Complex by Corbett Torrence. Mound Complex, Old Mound, Batty’s Mound, the Citrus Ridge, a section of the Pine Island Canal, and most of the pasture small hut at the top of Browns mound for use helped organize a small but dedicated work with which many of us are familiar. In the as a residence, but food-money and sanitation crew, whose core members included Bud and Randells’ honor, the land was named the would be a problem. Bill and I struck a deal Shirley House, Don Taggart, and Fred Tyers. Randell Research Center (RRC). that if I worked to improve the site one day a Foot by foot, one Brazilian pepper at a time, week and conducted regular site tours at we began clearing and reclaiming Pineland’s plan was formed to Pineland, Bill would find the money for a pastures. A few months later Charlie Dugan establish the RRC on a chemical toilet, and donations during the and Joe Gluckman joined the team. Before firm financial footing. tours would pay some of my expenses. long they had cleared substantial forests of The UFF would sell the Then, beginning in spring, 1998, for pepper trees, and the brush piles were Agift property to the State through the reduced rent in exchange for grounds work, I building up. Bob Repenning from the Conservation and Recreational Lands was able to stay in Daryl Baumgartner’s Department of Environmental Protection (CARL) program, and the State would beautiful 1911 Victorian house on top of the volunteered a wood chipper and a crew of appoint the FLMNH as manager of the nearby Adams Mound (recently sold to workers under the direction of Andy property. The proceeds from the sale, along Sharon Kurgis). A timely research project on Goodwyne. Soon the pepper piles were with additional gifts and grants, would make Buck Key undertaken for Mariner Properties turned into mulch. Clearing off the heavy up an endowment to help pay for education helped make ends meet, and a grant from the vegetation and removal of several fences and research at the site on a continuing John E. and Aliese Price Foundation provided enabled Butch Snearley of B& D Mowing to basis. The endowment goal was initially set another important funding boost. Bud House reclaim the south pasture. at $1,200,000. Unfortunately, Colonel Randell died in July, 1995. Patricia Randell and son Ricky Department of continue to reside in the home, but the cattle Environmental were sold and the gifted property began to Protection crew revert to its feral state. Delays in the state pitches in at the purchase process meant that the vegetation Randell Research continued to grow. Center. (Photo by In the fall of 1997, I needed to support Corbett Torrence.) myself in in order to complete my dissertation field research. Bill Marquardt needed someone to help main- tain the site. I figured I could screen-in the 2 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 Meanwhile, the tours were bringing in continued to grow. In visitors, many of whom remembered the November, across the sound Year of the Indian project’s great success in on Useppa’s southeastern the 1990s (see Calusa News nos. 8 and 9). shell ridge, Karen Walker With the help of Anna Stober and word-of- began exploring evidence of mouth recommendations, site visitation a possible sea-level rise increased. Anna spearheaded a fund-raising during the ninth century campaign to help with operating expenses. A.D. Funded by Gar and The RRC’s new sign at Within a few months, tour proceeds and Sanae Beckstead, the the gate on Waterfront contributions were sufficient to support a Maple Hill Foundation, Drive, installed in 1999. half-time position for a site manager/ and the Pender Memo- (Photo courtesy Time archaeologist, a position I gladly accepted. rial Fund, the project Sifters Archaeology Charlie Dugan noted that our new employed the help of Society.) entrance, located across from the American the RRC’s site Bible College on Waterfront Drive, was archaeologist, and difficult to recognize. He offered to pay for Useppa Islanders and visitors looked “a real sign worthy of the site.” Charlie’s gift into their past once again. Dwight and Susan Siprelle, Paul resulted in a sign built by Lee Designs of In the spring of 1999, with the help of and Warren Miller, and Gordon and Chessie Fort Myers, constructed and installed for Cindy Bear of Lee County’s Environmental Crosby, we were able to purchase a 1968 half price. Thanks also go to Merald Clark Education program, Arden Arrington and I Ford diesel tractor complete with bucket, for his creative artistic abilities on the sign. began offering elementary school tours at mower, drag box, and rake. A special thanks In July, 1998, Bill Keegan, chair of the the Pineland site on Tuesdays. Other goes to Debbie Gruelle and Brent Fouts for Florida Museum of Natural History’s educational activities in addition to the keeping our tractor running smoothly. research and collections division, committed regularly scheduled tours included lectures, While the tractor has contributed greatly to $34,000 over three years toward support of special programs for archaeological and our on-site maintenance activities, we still the RRC site archaeologist. Sara and Kevin historical societies, and the filming of need a road-worthy truck or van to transport McAuley invited the RRC to use their Everglades by Wall to Wall Productions. It field crews and supplies. beautiful house in St. James City to house aired nationally in the U.K. that spring and, Thanks to the efforts of Kat Epple and the RRC office and site archaeologist. Our later, throughout the U.S. and Canada. Sally Maitland, a Calusa Festival was held at regular volunteer maintenance crew grew to Also in 1999, Rob Patton began supervis- Royal Palm Square in Fort Myers the week- include Gordon and Dianna Willman, ing work on a grant funded by the Division end of February 26-27, 1999. Kat and Gloria and Andy Andrews, Bill and Norma of Historic Resources, Florida Department several others provided music, Bill Pretsch, and many other periodic volunteers. of State under the direction of Bill Marquardt and I gave talks, and Stuart Barbara Renneke and Greg Leblanc of Marquardt to evaluate some 40 state-owned, Brown and Dick Workman joined us at the Captiva Kayaks donated their time and coastal sites in Lee and Charlotte counties. information table and sold publications and kayaks for a series of fund-raiser tours to The project was supported by volunteer t-shirts. A silent auction of donated art work Mound Key. And in August, 1998, John help, including several members of the brought in over $700 for the RRC. Cauthen of Forestry Resources, Inc. Warm Mineral Springs Archaeological Anna Stober organized a writers’ work- contributed three days of heavy equipment Society. Focused primarily on Charlotte shop hosted by Randy Wayne White, which to remove Australian pines and other large Harbor, Rob’s project brought the RRC took place March 6-7, 1999 on his front exotics from various portions of the site. The experience to many southwest Florida porch at Pineland. Randy donated his time trees were mulched, and six eighteen- residents and visitors. and talents, and Gloria Andrews and Amy wheeler trucks were needed to haul the chips The “Red Dog” — the old red Ford truck Bennett helped out with logistics and away. that had become an icon of the Southwest publicity. The response was enthusiastic, and In October, 1998 the RRC opened again Florida Project — finally died. Thanks to the all the proceeds of the workshop ($2000) with renewed vigor. Local Pine Island support rescue crew of Peter and Sally Bergsten, were donated to the RRC. A fun and prosperous time was held at the annual fishing tournament sponsored by Volunteer Opportunities at Pineland the Waterfront Restaurant. Fish turned in for weighing were filleted and fried by IF YOU HAVE SOME TIME TO DONATE, we have jobs for you. Ar- restaurant staff and served to participants chaeological excavations and laboratory work are only some of with potato salad, beans, and corn bread. the activities undertaken at Pineland by volunteers working After dinner, locals told fishing stories that would have made Pinocchio proud, and cash directly with professional archaeologists. We also need help prizes for the biggest fish were awarded. with education programs, office work, site improvement, Thanks to the efforts of J.D. and Kristin and site tours. If you are interested, call 941-283-2062 or Hollway and Richard Krieg and all the folks at the Waterfront Restaurant, a gift of over write to the Randell Research Center at PO Box 608, $3,200 was presented to the RRC. Pineland, FL 33945, and tell us what you can do to help.❂ The RRC had a table at Pine Island’s summer Mangomania festival, and approxi- CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 3 mately 1,800 visitors stopped by. In September, 1999, we printed a new brochure for the RRC, including a map showing how to get there. Weekly school tours and guided tours for the general public resumed. A major highlight of fall, 1999 was the development by architect Jeff Mudgett Top: The Children and our site committee of a conceptual plan of the American for a teaching pavilion and educational Revolution sold walking trails. Jeff is donating his profes- these colorful sional time to the planning, as are engineer buttons state-wide Tim Keene and environmental consultant to make money Dick Workman. for the Randell The second annual Calusa Festival on Research Center February 26, 2000 was yet another expres- at Pineland. sion of genuine local support. Thanks to Kat Epple and Sally Maitland, folks enjoyed art Right: Forty-four members of the Children of the and crafts at Royal Palm Square. A silent American Revolution visited the Pineland site in March, 2000. auction of donated art work again contrib- uted to the RRC. activities. After touring the Pineland site, the In December, Randy White began re- A highlight of 2000 came when the crew set to work clearing brush from the north building our dock at his expense, for which Florida chapter of the Children of the face of the Brown’s mound. Twenty truckloads we are sincerely grateful. American Revolution (CAR) chose the RRC of brush later, we retired to the Sandy Hook as the focus of its state-wide fundraising Restaurant for a Causa feast. The gang stayed program. Through the sale of buttons, the in the Bridgewater in Matlacha, which they he most exciting news in early CAR contributed $1,500 to the RRC. The deemed “really cool.” The following day we 2001 was that in January Lee buttons, based on a drawing by Merald paddled out to Josslyn Island and good times County purchased the 8½-acre Clark, feature the RRC’s motto: “As We were had by all. T“Jessy-Chris” property at Pineland. The Learn, We Teach.” A limited number are still In April, 2000, Bill and Norma Pretsch University of Florida has leased it from the available through the RRC at a cost of $10 donated a 20-x-20-foot tent to the Randell County on behalf of the Florida Museum of each. Special thanks go to Mary Elisa Merril Research Center. We made immediate use of it Natural History’s Randell Research Center. and Mrs. Randy E. Merril for organizing the at the May-June field school conducted at the The home on the property will become the events. On March 15-17, forty-four CAR Pineland site in cooperation with Florida Gulf main administrative offices and meeting rooms group members came to Pineland and were Coast University. for the RRC, and in early 2001 it served as hosted by Theresa Schober and me In May, the Florida Anthropological the residence of your site archaeologist. for two days of Society meetings were held in Fort Myers. It has been an interesting 3 years for all of Several people connected with the RRC and us working toward establishing a permanent Florida Museum gave presentations on south research and education center at Pineland. Florida topics (e.g., Bud House, Darcie Thanks to both private and public funding MacMahon, Merald Clark, Bill Marquardt, and to many thousands of volunteer hours Karen Walker, Irv Quitmyer, Rob Patton, Lee and gifts of in-kind services, our programs Newsom, Corbett Torrence). As part of the continue to grow and to reach more and FAS weekend, we hosted 45 people for more people. Several projects are profiled in tours of the Pineland site the day after the this issue of Calusa News, and you will also meeting. Tours of Mound Key were given find an invitation to become a charter by Arden Arrington. member of our new support organization, May and June were occupied by the “Friends of the Randell Research Center.” first archaeological field school ever Members will receive a regular newsletter conducted at Pineland. Students from that will keep them up to date on the latest FSU and FGCU took the course, then findings and opportunities for participation, several of the FGCU students took a and their contributions will go directly laboratory analysis course in the fall to toward programs and site improvements at analyze and report on the findings. Pineland. I am proud to be a part of the In July, we again set up a table at the Randell Research Center at Pineland, and I Mangomania festival and enjoyed a brisk hope you will join us and become a part of Visitors to the RRC’s booth at business of visitors to our displays. this great experience. ❂ Mangomania had the opportunity to make In the fall of 2000, we resumed weekly their own cordage and necklaces. Here school tours in cooperation with Lee Corbett Torrence ties on a finished shell County’s Environmental Education program necklace made by an unidentified visitor. and once again offered guided tours of the (Photo by Bill Marquardt.) site for the public every Saturday morning. 4 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 Useppa’s Southeastern Shell Ridge: A Key to Past Climate Useppa Islanders Fund New Research by Karen Walker and Bill Marquardt

IN THE FALL OF 1998, Karen Walker and her The shells largely represent a high-salinity bones, charcoal from cooking fires, broken Randell Center colleague Corbett Torrence shore-line habitat with a secondary representa- pottery, and associated post molds. cleared away some overgrown Brazilian tion of back-bay oyster bars. The Indians were Karen’s analysis of the large sample of shells pepper trees and began excavating on the collecting edible molluscs in these environ- is now complete. The ninth-century deposit crest of Useppa Island’s southeastern ridge. ments — presumably nearby, since live included a very high percentage of fighting The work was funded by Garfield and Sanae shellfish are heavy. Bones of fish, found in conchs, surf clams, and tulip mussels — great numbers shellfish that live in large numbers within among the shells, Cayo Costa’s beach/surf zone today. In indicate a fishing addition, crested oysters, pen shells, sea emphasis on the bay urchins, stone crabs, and other high-salinity areas of Pine Island animals are well represented. Common oysters Sound but numerous are present too, along with their predators — shark vertebrae also lightning whelks, tulip shells, and others. This suggest a nearby assemblage is unusual when compared to opening to the Gulf. Indian shells from earlier and later time A majority of the periods on Useppa. The earlier and later pottery sherds mixed assemblages are different in that they consist in with the shells and primarily of bay oyster-bar assemblages. No bones were of the beach/surf zone animals appear. “Belle Glade” variety, Karen interprets this difference to mean Corbett Torrence explains shell tools made by Calusa Indian a pattern suggesting a that about 1200 years ago, an inlet existed in people at an “open house” on Useppa Island, fall 1998. (Photo human habitation the middle of Cayo Costa where today there is by Karen Walker.) sometime between no opening. Such an inlet would have allowed A.D. 800 and 1200. Useppans immediate access to the inlet and Beckstead, the Michael Pender Memorial Indeed, the shells radiocarbon dated to about the beach, and thus to the conchs, surf clams, Fund, and the Maple Hill Foundation. Island A.D. 850-900. tulip mussels, and other high-salinity shellfish owner and project co-sponsor Gar Beckstead Surf clam shells formed a solid layer across she found. The 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries joined them as an excavator, as did several the 1-x-1.5-m excavation pit. At a deeper A.D. are known by scientists to have been a other Useppa Island members and visitors. point was found a layer of sea urchin shells period of climatic warming. If the warming Karen expected ninth-century shells to and spines representing hundreds of urchins. trend was global in scale — a still debated appear within the first few inches because In addition to the many shell layers, we issue — some regions such as Florida may two previous explorations of the ridge, one documented several layers that represent have experienced a rise in sea level and more by Jerald Milanich in 1979 and another by surfaces where houses and cooking areas frequent and larger storms. Either or both Bill Marquardt in 1989, had found exactly existed. These were characterized by a greater forces together could result in the breaching that. Instead, more than 6 inches of sandy dirt quantity of rich black dirt with lesser amounts and general erosion of a barrier island such as had been placed there. The mystery was of shell fragments, but also including animal Cayo Costa. solved when Gar discovered not one but three Useppa’s change in shellfish may signal a plastic golf tees in the dirt, one of which 9th-century shift in the environmental setting appears to be made of a very early plastic. — a local manifestation of a global warming They had discovered the second tee of Barron trend. Making the leap from local environ- Collier’s 9-hole golf course, which opened for mental change to the global scale requires play in 1916! study of samples from multiple sites in other Beneath the modern-era dirt were shells, locations and of other time periods. Useppa is fish bones, and several broken pieces of A woman prepares to drive to the second clearly an important component in this British-made and Cuban-made dishware green, about 1918. She is standing on research arena and it is contributing to a better dating to the first half of the nineteenth what archaeologists call the southeastern understanding of environmental fluctuations century, the era when the Cuban fisherman midden ridge of Useppa Island, where over the past 5,000 years. This provides a José Caldez and others operated a mullet excavations directed by Karen Walker human-scale historical context for understand- ❂ fishery on Useppa Island. Finally, beneath the would take place 80 years later. ing today’s global warming trend. Caldez layer appeared the dense, almost dirt- free shell layers that Karen sought. CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 5 Bob Coughter (left) and Rob Patton at work on the Charlotte Harbor Mounds Survey, Phase 2 project. (Photo by Lindsey Williams.)

IN THE SPRING OF 1999, Rob Patton, assisted for teachers and a guided tour of a nearby by Bob Coughter, initiated a bold expedition archaeological site. After teacher testing, the Around the to test coastal archaeological sites owned by lesson plan was distributed free to workshop the state of Florida. With funding from the participants and to every fifth-grade teacher Florida Department of State’s Bureau of in Charlotte County. Harbor in Historic Preservation (BHP) and logistical The research project focused on the support provided by the Randell Research Alligator Creek area south of Punta Gorda Center (RRC), the Charlotte Harbor and specifically the Acline Mound and its Sixty Days Environmental Center (CHEC), and the associated villages. By analyzing diagnostic Rob Patton’s Study Combines Florida Department of Environmental tools and processing radiocarbon samples Research, Site Management, and Protection (DEP), the two put together a taken near the surface, but clearly within Education Goals corps of volunteers and plotted a strategy intact strata, Rob was able to establish a accounting for tides, water-crossings, and a general chronology of when sites may have myriad of other details. One of their goals: been last occupied. by Corbett Torrence and to extract radiocarbon samples in order to The dates range from 1900 B.C. to 1200 Bill Marquardt date as many sites as possible. A.D., but it appears that a small regional The La Niña spring was clear and mild, chiefdom emerged in the Alligator Creek and March never flexed its stormy muscle. area around 800 to 900 A.D. The Acline Assisted by volunteers, many from the Warm Mound likely served as the local political Mineral Springs Archaeological Society, the center. Rob thinks that the people of Acline Patton-Coughter duo investigated a total of may have been under the leadership of a 38 sites and obtained 26 radiocarbon dates. “cosmopolitan paramount chief at Big The research was designed to educate Mound Key.” In addition, his dates suggest local residents, provide management that between 800 and 900 A.D. important information to DEP, and facilitate Rob’s social changes were occurring in Charlotte dissertation research on the rise of political Harbor, concurring with George Luer’s idea complexity in southwest Florida. The that political complexity in southwest education came in the form of a teacher Florida emerged first along the northern workshop on archaeology, the environment, portions of the region and may have in part and historical preservation. Hosted by been in response to political influences from CHEC, the workshop included a lesson plan more northern peoples. ❂

6 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 The Architectural Design of Mounds Form and Function, Space and Style by Corbett Torrence

HAVING GENERATED MAPS FOR 24 MOUND SITES various businesses. Inside our homes we see and compared them with 21 others sketched another set of grammatical rules: the front by George Luer and Lauren Archibald in hall leading into or dividing the two great 1988, I now firmly believe that ancient rooms; the living room on one side and the Indian mounds in southwest Florida were dining room on the other; the kitchen set off constructed in accordance with specific from the dining room. In modern homes, architectural patterns. Architecture has the design has changed such that the always been of interest to archaeologists. For kitchen, dining room, and living room often example, egalitarian societies typically live in now share the same central space (reflecting houses that are generally uniform in shape changes in gender-roles), but the overall and size, while cultures that are socially grammar is the same. Our houses are very stratified have houses that are different sizes much about style: Tudor, bungalow, split he method or reflecting individual wealth. Architecture level, or ranch. The shape of things must be and archaeology have a lot more in common both functional and aesthetic. than one might think. Applying these concepts to Indian Trationale by which For the architect, there is a functional limit mounds along the southwest Florida coast, to what can be done in any given space. If the mounds fall into three major design breaking shells to make a tool in one categories. Each reflects a specific and almost places are connected location results in a pile of sharp shell non-overlapping size range (there is only one fragments, it is not likely going to be the exception in the 45-site sample). The location in which one sleeps. More obvi- different size and design of sites, and their is called architectural ously, you can’t sleep in the fireplace while distribution, suggest a clearly hierarchical the fire is hot. Inevitably, we need different settlement pattern from hamlets to villages, grammar, and the places to do different things. and centers to capitals. The Calusa land- The architect is interested in the layout scape is becoming more clear. and design of places. Which space, or non- Of further significance is the similar pattern represents space (mass) goes where, and how should it layout and design of the larger sites. They be shaped? The method or rationale by demonstrate such similarity that the location which places are connected is called architec- of a burial mound at Galt Island was an architectural style. tural grammar, and the pattern represents an predicted and, subsequently, discovered! architectural style. While the interpretation of what the various We see the rules of architectural grammar designs and layouts actually represent in our communities every day: in the layout remains speculative and largely untested, the of our neighborhoods and the location of patterns themselves are evident, which should make for many years of interesting Brown’s Mound at the Pineland Site research. ❂ Complex, viewed from the north. Note people on top of mound at left, beyond palm tree. (Photo by Merald Clark.)

CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 20017 In Brief by Bill Marquardt Randell Center Joins “Trail of the Lost Tribes” The heritage of the Florida Gulf Coast’s ancient will be inter- preted for the public at several locations, including the Randell Research Center at Pineland. The brainchild of Karen Fraley and Marty Ardren of Around the Bend Nature Tours, the “Trail” is a marketing network to promote visita- tion at publicly accessible archaeological sites, museums, and other attractions related to precontact Gulf-coastal peoples, from Crystal River to Key Marco. The Network of the Trail of the Lost Tribes is a partnership between public and private entities that provides consistent interpretation of the archaeol- ogy, anthropology, and natural history of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The mission of the network is to promote awareness, responsible visitation, and protection of Our First Archaeological the remaining cultural sites of Florida’s original people. Interpretation will Field School engage all age levels and be based on There was much excitement in May and current science. June, 2000, as 12 archaeology students The “Trail” network is still in the from Florida Gulf Coast University and organization stage at this point, but it Florida State University prepared for promises to bring interested visitors to work at the Pineland site. First, they had archaeological sites and to promote the several days of lectures outlining ar- understanding of the past. In the first chaeological site formation processes, archaeological sampling techniques, and year, plans call for a brochure and a free Top: Field school students at Pineland sift speaker series open to the general public. artifact identification by Corbett Torrence. At Pineland, they gained for artifacts during Randell Mound excavations, summer, 2000. Clockwise Local Heritage Inspires hands-on experience and learned site mapping and survey, surface and from foreground: Loren Bischel, Kat Gray, Symphonic Music subsurface collection techniques, and archaeologist Theresa Schober, Ruth Philip Koplow composed a symphonic data recording from Corbett and Witoshynsky, Dolores Graswald, Steve work called “Southwest Florida Impres- bioarchaeologist Theresa Schober. Giguere. sions,” which was given its world Finally, they were put to work on top of premiere performance by the Youth the Randell Mound, documenting the Bottom: Field school students Ragan Symphony of Southwest Florida on May layering of sediments that had been Doherty (left, in pit) and Mat Newberry 2, 2000, at the Barbara B. Mann Center disturbed by construction activities in record the stratigraphy on the Randell in Fort Myers. The four movements of 1996 (see Calusa News No. 9, p. 3). Mound at Pineland, summer 2000. the work are : “From the Gulf,” “From Their findings suggest that the Randell the Edison Labs,” “From the Calusa Mound may have been the tallest Mounds,” and “From the Sanibel Light mound at Pineland, perhaps even the shell tool analyses, to replication and House.” RRC site archaeologist Corbett tallest mound in all of southwest testing of shell hammers to assess use- Torrence took Mr. Koplow to Mound Florida. wear patterns, to estimating the Key via kayak and explained Calusa life In the fall, some of the students precolumbian density of whelk shells to him. Corbett attended the premiere, continued their work with Pineland in . A second and he and the RRC were acknowledged materials by taking a laboratory archaeological field school took place during the performance. analysis course. Each student took on a in May-June, 2001. Results will be class project, ranging from ceramic and reported in future newsletters. 8 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 Hall of South Florida The film features three permanent exhibits at the FLMNH’s Powell Hall People and Environments facility, including the Hall of South to Open in 2002 Florida. It was filmed at various sites beneath the Aucilla River; on location At Powell Hall, the FLMNH’s new in Florida’s largest underground cavern; exhibition/education center in and at a replicated Calusa Indian fish Gainesville, we’re building a 6000- camp constructed for the film on a square-foot permanent exhibit about Southwest Florida mangrove beach. For South Florida people and environments. the Calusa scenes, several and This is the first time in the 83-year Miccosukee people acted as Calusa history of the state’s natural history people (William Cypress, Samuel museum that there has been a perma- Tommie, Daniel Tommie, Jerica nent exhibit about South Florida. We Sanders, and Vanessa Frank). Bill began planning the exhibit in 1994 and Marquardt, Corbett Torrence, Dorr construction began in October, 1997. Dennis, and Darcie MacMahon from Exhibit galleries are devoted to a the FLMNH served as advisors. walk-through mangrove forest; a The video is distributed by IAPS natural-habitats study center; a larger- Books. From Exploration to Exhibition than-life underwater walk-through may be purchased for $19.95. Send your exhibit; a gallery about southwest check or money order to: IAPS Books, Florida’s 6,000-year fishing heritage; an PO Box 117800, Gainesville, Florida outdoor mound and village display; a 32611-7800. Include appropriate Florida palm-thatched building featuring the sales tax and please add $2.00 for the Calusa leader Carlos and his advisors; a first item, $0.50 for each additional gallery showcasing some of the most item for shipping/handling. interesting objects in our collections from South Florida; and a gallery on Useppa Book South Florida Indian people today — the Seminole and Miccosukee. We are This ancient painting of an ivory-billed Published now less than a year away from opening woodpecker will be on permanent exhibit The Archaeology of to the public, at which time all galleries in the Hall of South Florida People and Useppa Island, will have been completed except the Environments, to open to the public in fall, edited by Bill larger-than-life underwater walk- 2002. (Photo courtesy Florida Museum of Marquardt, has through, for which we are still seeking Natural History.) been published support. as Institute of Major funding for this $2.2-million Archaeology exhibit has come from the National Emmy-award-winning and Paleoenvi- Endowment for the Humanities, the Video Features ronmental Florida Department of State’s Division Studies, Mono- of Historic Preservation, and the Florida Calusa Re-enactment graph 3. The 270- Museum of Natural History. The Expedition Florida — From Exploration page book includes chapters on archae- natural-habitats study center is being to Exhibition, a half-hour film pro- ology, history, and archaeobiology. sponsored by the Jessie Ball duPont duced by the FLMNH, won a 2000 Detailed reports of archaeological Fund. Other sponsors include The New Regional Emmy Award from the findings and rich historical accounts York Times (the big mural in the Suncoast Chapter of the National are illustrated with many drawings and mangrove gallery), the Raymond Stober Academy of Television Arts and Sci- photos. family (outdoor mound and village ences. Produced with Wild Tracks As early as Late Paleo-Indian times, display), Anina Hills Glaize Productions as part of the the place now known as Useppa has been (Fishing Heritage gallery), and museum’s Expedition visited by people. It became an island anonymous donors (the thatched Florida project, the film about 6,500 years ago, beginning a building). We still need sponsors won the Emmy in the tradition of seasonal use by fishing for several galleries, with naming “information-oriented people that would last for six millennia. opportunities ranging from programs” category. Abandoned about 800 years ago, it was $35,000 to $200,000. The entire This exciting film takes re-occupied in the eighteenth century by Hall can be named for a gift of viewers behind the Spanish-Cuban fisherfolk who fished $500,000. If you would like to scenes as teams of with Native Americans. This era came to become involved in helping fund scientists, curators, and an end in the 1830s when the U.S. this state-of-the-art permanent artists transform asserted control and deported Indians to exhibit, please contact Susan Pharr remarkable discoveries the West. Useppa played important roles at 352-846-2000, extension 211. into museum exhibits. in the Seminole Wars, the Civil War, and Continued on page 13 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 9 Snapshots ong-time volunteer RRC Bud House,L left, shows an aerial photo- graph of traces of the Pine Island Canal. Bud has spearheaded efforts for study and preservation of the last remnants of the ancient canal. (Photograph courtesy Time Sifters Archaeology Society).

lthough greatly altered in modernA times, the Pine Island Canal, below, is still clearly visible within the Pineland Site Complex. (Photograph courtesy Time Sifters Archaeology Society).

10 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 During a guided tour of the Pineland site, Corbett Torrence demonstrates how ancient southwest Florida people made cordage from plant fibers. (Photograph courtesy Time Sifters Archaeology Society).

n example, left,A of the palm- fiber cordage found perfectly preserved in Old Mound excavations at Pineland in 1992. (Photo by John Maseman.)

onservator Kate Singley, above, consolidates a wooden bowl from the KeyC Marco site in preparation for its being placed on exhibit in the Hall of South Florida People and Environments, opening in 2002.

CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 11 Books and Videos on Southwest Florida Good Add these books and videos on Southwest Florida archaeology, history, and oral history to your personal library. Give a gift to a friend or family member. Or, ask your local librarian to purchase them. Questions This issue’s good question Year Author Price Quantity comes to us via e-mail: BOOKS 2/10/2000 Fisherfolk of Charlotte Harbor, Florida (hardcover) 2001 Edic $35.00 ______Can you please tell me the meaning The Archaeology of Useppa Island (hardcover) 1999 Marquardt $35.00 ______or translation of the word “Calusa”? I have researched several sites and The Archaeology of Useppa Island (softcover) 1999 Marquardt $20.00 ______have been unable to find any refer- New Words, Old Songs: Understanding the Lives ence. Thank you for your time. of Ancient Peoples in Southwest Florida Through Archaeology (hardcover) 1995 Blanchard $24.95 ______Paula Stack Answer: New Words, Old Songs: Understanding the Lives of Ancient Peoples in Southwest Florida Europeans attributed various names to Through Archaeology (softcover) 1995 Blanchard $14.95 ______the Calusa — Carlos, Calos, Caloosa, and Caluus. For example, Escalante Sharks and Shark Products in Prehistoric South Fontaneda wrote in 1575 that “Carlos in Florida (softcover) 1993 Kozuch $ 5.00 ______their language signifies a fierce people. They are so-called for being brave and Culture and Environment in the Domain of skillful, as in truth they are.” the Calusa (softcover) 1992 Marquardt $25.00 ______The Indians? may have called them- selves by a different name. Many VIDEOS (VHS FORMAT) groups simply call themselves “The People” in their own language. Expedition Florida: From Exploration to Exhibition 2000 Gaines, $19.95 ______The word “Calusa” may also derive Robitaille from words similar to the Mikasuki word “Calushathee” or the Creek word The Domain of the Calusa 1995 Brown $19.95 ______“Calushulke,” meaning “reapers of the sea,” or the Mikasuki word “Calachaalee,” Order total: ______meaning “shell people.” Florida residents add sales tax: ______Spaniards in 1566 called the Calusa leader “Carlos” (Spanish for “Charles”), Shipping: $2 for first item, 50¢ for each additional item: ______but this may have been a mispronuncia- tion of an Indian name. In 1562, Total (make check to University of Florida Foundation): ______Frenchman René de Laudonièrre wrote the name as “Calos.” Spanish Jesuit Send remittance (check or money order) to: missionary Juan Rogel wrote in 1567 IAPS Books PO Box 117800 Gainesville, FL 32611 that “Caalus, which the Spaniards mispronouncing the word called him Ship to: ______Carlos ... is the greatest of the caciques [chiefs] that there is in all this coast of ______Florida.”

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12 CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 their house to Lee County. Tre Beeson of advisory-board retreat in January, 2001, and pro- In Appreciation Missimer International helped evaluate a bur- vided a wonderful lunch for all attendees. The IN ADDITION TO THE DONORS listed on the fol- ied storage tank that temporarily delayed the Suncoast Portable Toilet Company of Cape Coral lowing pages, we would like to thank Tim Keene sale. We thank Gina Poppell, postmistress of the gives us a discount on portable toilet rental. of Keene Engineering, Jeff Mudgett of Pineland post office, for her help with getting George and Dina Nelson contributed a boat, Parker-Mudgett-Smith Architects, Dick Work- our mailing permit transferred to Pineland and motor, boat trailer, and other equipment to the man of Coastplan, Inc., Parke Lewis of Bender for helping our volunteers learn to organize news- RRC. Jerry Wynn of Ace Hardware, Naples, Associates, Inc., and Denis O’Connell of Me- letters for bulk-rate mailing. We thank Cindy contributed new excavation equipment to ridian Surveying and Mapping for volunteer- Bear, Arden Arrington, David Meo, and Theresa FGCU for use in our Pineland excavations. At ing professional services to help with our Schober for pitching in numerous times to help no cost to the RRC, Chaos Productions, Inc. Pineland development. Rick Joyce, Stuart with our education and outreach programs. created a public service announcement to ad- Brown, and Corbett Torrence also put in much We thank Anna Stober for her leadership of vertise our site tours on local television. Lee De- time on the site planning. We thank our Advi- the fund-raising campaign in 1998 and 1999, signs of Fort Myers constructed and installed sory Board for many hours of dedicated work Barbara Grieg for her help with web site design, our road sign for half price. We thank Sally supporting and improving the Randell Research Sara and Kevin McAuley for use of their St. Maitland and Kat Epple for organizing and Center. We thank the several volunteers who James City house for our RRC office and resi- hosting two Calusa Festivals to help raise aware- assisted in the Randell Mound excavations of dence during 1998-2000, Greg LeBlanc and ness of our programs; Bill and Norma Pretsch January-April, 2000, including Mary Ann Scott Barbara Renneke for assistance with kayak tours for donating a tent; the Waterfront Restaurant and Denege Patterson, who helped catalogue to benefit the RRC, John Cauthen of Forestry of St. James City for hosting a fishing tourna- and inventory materials in the lab, and Gloria Resources, Inc. for free removal of Australian ment to benefit the RRC; the Children of the Andrews, who helped schedule and phone vol- pines from RRC property, and Bob Repenning American Revolution for adopting the RRC as unteers. Debbie Randell typed up visitor sign- and his DEP team for help with site clearing. their state-wide fund-raising project for 2000. ins for addition to our mailing list. At the Uni- Rob Wells allowed us to use his dock at the Tar- We thank all of our indefatigable site-improve- versity of Florida, Howie Ferguson of UF’s Con- pon Lodge for boat tours to the Pineland site, ment volunteers, but especially Bud and Shirley struction Management office has facilitated and the Tarpon Lodge grants the RRC a sub- House, Don Taggart, Fred Tyers, Gordon and communication between UF and local planners. stantial discount for lodging of its guests. The Dianna Willman, Gloria and Andy Andrews, UF counsel Leslie Knight helped set up the Useppa Island Historical Society (Barbara and Bill and Norma Pretsch. Thank you, one master lease with Lee County for our headquar- Sumwalt, President) graciously hosted our and all. ❂ ters building. Susan Pharr, Bruce DeLaney, Su- san Goffman, and Leslie Bram of the UF Foun- In Brief – continued from page 9 Thomasson figurehead (see Calusa News no. dation have provided helpful advice and coun- the early-20th-century Florida Land Boom 7, p. 2). Thirteen of the sixteen chapters are sel on numerous occasions. Doug Jones and Bill era. It served briefly in 1960 as a training now complete, and we expect publication in Keegan of the Florida Museum of Natural His- camp for Cuban expatriates, and in the 1960s 2002. tory provided financial support and encourage- and early 1970s as a fishing resort. The last ment. quarter of the twentieth century saw the New Manager for Stuart, Cotten, and Robin Brown are restoration of the island and its emergence as South Florida Collections thanked for helping us install and test a the Useppa Island Club. well-point system at the Pineland site to assist in The book is available for $35 (hard-cover) at Museum de-watering our excavations, and Randy Wayne or $20 (soft-cover) from IAPS Books, PO Box The South Florida White for allowing us to use his water and to 117800, Gainesville FL 32611. Add sales tax Collection at the run our pump from his home electric line. We for delivery in Florida, and $2 for the first Florida Museum of also thank Randy for hosting a writers’ work- item, $0.50 for each additional item for Natural History has a shop to benefit the RRC, for repairing our dock shipping/handling. new Collections at his own expense, and for granting an archaeo- Manager. Scott logical and conservation easement on his Pineland Monograph Mitchell was hired in Pineland property. Randy White and Sharon August, 1998 and Kurgis provided low-cost housing for FGCU In the Works has been working field-school students. FGCU provost Brad Now that the Useppa book is done, all closely with Bill Bartel made available funds to help pay FGCU attention is focused in completing the next Marquardt to help manage archaeological students who worked at the pavilion excava- monograph, to be entitled The Archaeology of collections from South Florida. Scott was tions beyond the end of the field school; FGCU Pineland: A Coastal Southwest Florida Site raised in Ft. Myers and is trained as an also provided laboratory space for analysis of the Complex, A.D. 50-1600. To be Monograph 4 archaeologist. He received a B.A. in anthropol- Pineland artifacts. Chuck Hahn loaned us a die- of the IAPS, it will focus on our excavations at ogy from the University of Florida in 1991 sel pump and arranged for its monitoring and the Pineland Site Complex between 1988 and an M.A. in Public Archaeology from the servicing. Jack Himschoot provided free and 1995. Co-edited by Karen Walker and University of South Florida in 1996. Scott is heavy-equipment services during the 2001 ar- Bill Marquardt, it will include chapters on responsible for maintaining the collections on chaeological investigations. John and Maureen excavations and stratigraphy; topographic a daily basis, integrating new material, and Casey, owners of the Gill House property, gra- reconstructions; auger survey; archaeobotany; making the collections available to researchers ciously hosted an RRC advisory board meeting bioarchaeology; soils analysis; zooarchaeology; and the public. Scott will provide updates on at their home, and were most courteous and and artifacts of ceramics, stone, shell, cordage, our collections curation work in future helpful during the lengthy process of sale of and wood, including a study of the newsletters. ❂ CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 13 The Calusa Constituency July 1, 1997 through E. L. Roy Hunt Members ($10-99) William J. Kemper June 30, 1998 Muriel and Richard Jones Frederick R. Abele Jane Kepp Wendel and Evelyn Kent Larry W. and Laura C. Anger Teresa A. Kersey Benefactors Dudley and Carole Kircher Richard D. and Patricia P. Joseph and Sandra Knollenberg ($20,000-$99,999) Mary M. and Ronald M. Bartlett Erika Kotala-Bell Anina Hills Glaize Koontz James H. and Rena M. Bartley Arthur and Molly Krival Thomas F. and Joan A. Krick Tanya W. Bergman Richard and Carole Lear Sustaining Members Robin C. Krivanek Allan R. and Burnett S. Janet E. Levy ($5,000-$19,999) Lee Trust for Historic Bloodworth William C. Lynch Preservation, Inc. 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Gruber American Revolution Lammot Dupont Elizabeth and Maxwell Hughson Gordon and Serena Crosby Guy P. Fischer Joe Ingrum William H. Marquardt John R. Fox Sarah Sartain Jane Useppa Island Historical Society Shirley K. Gerstenberger Cleora and Gilbert Keeley The Waterfront Restaurant & Hager Companies Marilyn Kirshten Marina Ruby J. Humer Alberta W. Lambeth Mrs. Lanna M. Keller Janet E. Levy Dudley and Carole Kircher Mrs. Brandy A. Macchia Robert N. and Jacalyn J. Kish Jane S. Mason Robin C. Krivanek Melanie Meo Lee Trust for Historic Frederick C. Meyer Preservation, Inc. Rebecca L. Morse F. B. MacKinnon National Audubon Society, Inc. John S. Manson Darlene Novak Kevin and Sara McAuley Deborah D. Peloso Jennie B. McBean Carol A. Pooser Frances T. Preston CALUSA NEWS • NOVEMBER 2001 15 Archaeology An Invitation to Join Us Continues at Pineland We cordially invite you to become a “Friend of Although hampered by frequent rains, the Randell Research Center.” This group will From the actively promote archaeological and environ- archaeological research at Pineland is proceed- ing this fall under the direction of Corbett mental research and education in southwest Torrence and Theresa Schober. The work is Florida through volunteer and financial Director support of the Randell Research Center. taking place where the pavilion is to be situated, in order to investigate parts of the site Support levels range from $30 to $1000 per New Coordinator Hired that may be impacted by construction. year, and there is a special rate of $15 for Corbett and Theresa have accepted teaching students. All supporters will receive a regular As this issue of Calusa News goes to press, Dr. newsletter (at least two per year) as well as John E. Worth has been hired to manage jobs with Florida Gulf Coast University for the 2001-2002 academic year, and will wrap discounts on our publications and recognition research and public programs at the Randell in the newsletter. All funds raised by the Research Center. A native of Georgia, John up the Pineland archaeological field work by December. Friends organization will be put to work completed his Ph.D. at the University of locally in southwest Florida. ❂ Florida in 1992, and has written three books and many articles on the Indians of Florida The Last Calusa News and Georgia. He has published more than a This tenth issue of Calusa News is being dozen articles for the general public, and has a mailed free to nearly 5,000 people. Another decade of experience in public archaeology 2,000 will be given away to students, site and education at the Fernbank Museum in visitors, and correspondents. With this issue, Atlanta and Coosawattee Foundation. In the we retire the occasional newsletter known as past year alone, more than 3,000 students “Calusa News.” Since its beginning in January, CALUSA NEWS participated in his field and classroom 1987, it has brought the findings of our Editor: programs in northwest Georgia. In addition to Southwest Florida Project to a wide audience. William H. Marquardt, being an active field archaeologist, John also is It has also served as a way to thank our Project Director an expert in translating Spanish documents volunteers and donors, without whom we from the time of early contact with the could not have survived and prospered. I Writers: Americas. His duties will involve managing hasten to say that we are not getting out of the William H. Marquardt and coordinating the development of the business of communicating our findings to all Corbett Torrence Center’s public-education programs and of you who care about southwest Florida’s Karen Walker facilities, which will include a teaching heritage and environment. Calusa News will Production: pavilion and walking trails. He will operate be replaced by a more frequent and more GBS Productions from a new RRC office and headquarters in regular newsletter that will be sent to members the historic Gill house located next to the of our new support society, “Friends of the Send questions or comments to: Pineland post office. Randell Research Center.” William H. Marquardt Florida Museum of Natural History PO Box 117800 Gainesville, FL 32611-7800 http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu

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