Submitted by coldrum ---
Archaeologists have found ancient human remains at another Brickell Avenue development site, additional evidence that downtown Miami and much of South Florida was inhabited thousands of years ago.
Fragmented bones belonging to five or six members of the extinct Tequesta tribe -- or its ancestors -- were unearthed in recent weeks at 1814 Brickell Ave., eventual site of a 12-unit condominium, according to archaeologist Robert Carr. [Surrounding finds date to 2,500 - 3,000 years ago.]
''This is not nearly at the scale of what we've seen in other downtown areas, but it was definitely a cemetery,'' said Carr, who lives in Davie and has discovered and assessed many ancient sites in Broward and Miami-Dade, including the Miami Circle. ``The question is the extent of it.''
State law requires a full archaeological assessment of any site that yields human remains and the reburial of those remains at their original location or as close to it as feasible. That process can delay construction, but state law does not require termination of development at such sites.
For more, see the article in the Miami Herald.
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