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C. B. Moore excavated a few hundred mounds on the west coast of Florida. This illustration (1900) depicts one of the large shell mounds on Mound Island in Estero Bay. The island (128 acres) was covered with dozens of such mounds some reaching 60 feet in height. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Mound Key Archaeological State Park

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C. B. Moore excavated a few hundred mounds on the west coast of Florida. This illustration (1900) depicts one of the large shell mounds on Mound Island in Estero Bay. The island (128 acres) was covered with dozens of such mounds some reaching 60 feet in height. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

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