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Natural PlacesSite Name: Little Salt Spring Alternative Name: Little Salt Spring Archeological and Ecological PrCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 40.191 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Sarasota, FL Nearest Village: North Port, FL
Latitude: 27.074900N Longitude: 82.2331W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Natural Feature in Sarasota County, Florida.
Little Salt Spring is a sinkhole with a very low flow anoxic spring forming a circular pond. Evidence of North American Mega Fauna and the signs of Hunters and Gathers have been found here, including some of the oldest artifacts (10000 - 5000 BC) ever found in the south eastern United States.
During Florida's Ice Age prehistory, the peninsula was much drier and the spring would have attracted prey and predators. The existing sinkhole was formed about 15000 years ago. The water level has varied over time and a series of ledges 16 to 27 feet from the current surface lie beneath an oxygen depleted water layer. It's at this level that there have been finds of wooden stakes, textile fragments, hair, bone, and tools.
The Preserve was donated to the University of Miami. Rosenstiel School's Division of Marine Affairs manages the site and conducts excavations and other studies within the preserve. The sinkhole and spring are on the National Register of Historic Places.
The site is adjacent to Butler Park in North Port, but Little Salt Spring itself and the surrounding preserve are normally open to the general public only on tours.
Additional information of the finds and the difficulty of underwater excavation can be found in this article, Diving into Paleo Florida from the Mammoth Trumpet.
Note: Archaeologists hope remains of a 10k year old spear helps piece together how Florida's earliest inhabitants lived. See article summaries in comment.
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