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The Enigmatic Crystal River Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ripley P. Bullen
Ripley P. Bullen*
Affiliation:
Florida Park Service, Gainesville, Florida
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The Crystal River site, on the west coast of Florida about 65 miles north of Tampa, presents one of the many unsolved problems of Florida archaeology. Included in the site is a curving shell ridge, shaped like a fishhook with a temple mound where the barb of the hook would be, a large sand or sand and shell burial mound surrounded by a platform to the north, another temple mound further to the north, and a large deposit of shell to the northwest (Moore, 1903, Fig. 16). Obviously, this is a large and complicated site. Practically the only archaeological work done at Crystal River is that of Moore who, during his three visits, dug all the burial mound and part of its surrounding platform (Moore, 1903; 1907; 1918). Moore did no work in the shell midden or temple mounds and our knowledge of the site is limited to its burial complex.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 142 - 143
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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