KVAHC MEETING
Guest Speaker: Nigel Rudolph
Crystal River SitE
Found
- musical instruments such as copper pan flutes
- copper breast plates
- ear spools
- burial sites
CB Moore
- Did amazing artifact drawings
- Rating burial moun and lagoons
Ridley Bullen
- Dud out of the burial mounds and basically destroyed them
1950's to 1960's
- Owners bulldozed 2/3 of mound A to build a trailer park
1993
- Storm swept through and destroyed the trailer park
Mounds
Mound H
- 15 ft tall
- Only mound that is shaped like that in the US
- Excavated by Bullen
- Oyster shell and sand were used for support for structures
Mound G
- Small
- 5ft tall
- Made of sand
- Built at the same time as the burial complex
Stele at crystal river
- A large carved chinch of limestone
- Only has one carving
- Sitting on bed of cottage stones
- Detereating quickly
- Lichen was there and protecting it at first
What's next
- New interpretative signage
- All base on imagery coming from the mural
THE DIG
Artifacts
Forms
Attendance
- Dr.Butler
- Mr.Davis
- Ms.Anita
- Gabbie
- Josue
- Hilary
- Siyona
- Sam
- Isaac
- Misty
- Ashley
Reflection
This month we got to dig and sift through part of the new unit. We set a record for number of flakes at this high of a level. I helped with the screening and labeling of the artifact bags. It was different because I had never labeled bags or catagorized sand before. All in all it was a very eventful day.