Tropical Break wallpaper 1440×900
I had another nice winter theme wall planned for the day, but then as the weather had turned so cold in even the deep south I thought maybe some readers might appreciate a break even if only a visual one.
Secrets of Miami Circle, known as America’s Stonehenge, lie buried
Nine years ago, an array of American Indians, environmentalists, preservationists, New Age spiritualists, diviners, even Cub Scouts rose up to save the Miami Circle, a 2,000-year-old artifact that many embraced as America’s own Stonehenge.
But today, the Circle — a series of loaf-shaped holes chiseled into the limestone bedrock at the mouth of the Miami River — is interred beneath bags of sand and gravel, laid over the formation in 2003 to protect it from the elements.
And though taxpayers shelled out $27.6 million to purchase the 38-foot Circle and its surrounding two acres, visitors to the site’s planned archaeological park likely will never see the actual work of some of Miami’s earliest inhabitants.
Its great that the site has been preserved on one hand, but sad that actual archaeological recovery of the site is probably years off. There remains some question as to the origins and functions of North America’s Stonehenge, but many think it was built by the Tequesta tribe about two thousand years ago (more here). Its unfortunate that we know more about European and Middle-east history of that period then we do about native history and accomplishments of the natives of our own continent.
