Secrets of the Springs: Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring
This tale of two deep springs in Florida that began as sinkholes about 13,000 years ago and the story of the precious water they contained, reveals the recent and prehistoric story of what is now the Sunshine State and the importance of its natural resources to its people.

The mineral-charged spring water sustained Florida's earliest human populations--roaming hunter-gatherers who discovered the springs about 10,000 years ago and revisited them for thousands of years--in dry times and preserved their bones and artifacts for thousands of years. These dramatic tales based on the history of Florida's first people offer new perspectives on Florida's long history.

The second time-period is recent and factual. Often outrageously stranger than fiction, it follows recent events int he history of the springs - the remarkable people who dived in the deep water-filled holes and put together the picture of human life-ways 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene Era. DNA analysis by world renown Svante Paabo revealed that these first Floridians were unrelated to the Native Americans living in North America today
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Secrets of the Springs: Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring
This tale of two deep springs in Florida that began as sinkholes about 13,000 years ago and the story of the precious water they contained, reveals the recent and prehistoric story of what is now the Sunshine State and the importance of its natural resources to its people.

The mineral-charged spring water sustained Florida's earliest human populations--roaming hunter-gatherers who discovered the springs about 10,000 years ago and revisited them for thousands of years--in dry times and preserved their bones and artifacts for thousands of years. These dramatic tales based on the history of Florida's first people offer new perspectives on Florida's long history.

The second time-period is recent and factual. Often outrageously stranger than fiction, it follows recent events int he history of the springs - the remarkable people who dived in the deep water-filled holes and put together the picture of human life-ways 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene Era. DNA analysis by world renown Svante Paabo revealed that these first Floridians were unrelated to the Native Americans living in North America today
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Secrets of the Springs: Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring

Secrets of the Springs: Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring

Secrets of the Springs: Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring

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This tale of two deep springs in Florida that began as sinkholes about 13,000 years ago and the story of the precious water they contained, reveals the recent and prehistoric story of what is now the Sunshine State and the importance of its natural resources to its people.

The mineral-charged spring water sustained Florida's earliest human populations--roaming hunter-gatherers who discovered the springs about 10,000 years ago and revisited them for thousands of years--in dry times and preserved their bones and artifacts for thousands of years. These dramatic tales based on the history of Florida's first people offer new perspectives on Florida's long history.

The second time-period is recent and factual. Often outrageously stranger than fiction, it follows recent events int he history of the springs - the remarkable people who dived in the deep water-filled holes and put together the picture of human life-ways 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene Era. DNA analysis by world renown Svante Paabo revealed that these first Floridians were unrelated to the Native Americans living in North America today

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683340720
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 102
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Robin Brown has written two books about Florida for adults: Florida’s Fossils, and Florida’s First People, and one for children, The Crafts of Florida’s First People. All three were published by Pineapple Press, all three are still in print and still selling. Robin and his wife were instrumental in beginning the Fort Myers’ Nature Center. Robin passed away in 2019.

A former reporter for the Fort Myers, Florida, News Press Scott Derks is the author of 19 books on U.S. economic history, including the award winning two volume series The Value of a Dollar, 1600 to 2009. Scott began writing professionally at 17 and quickly claimed the environment and science as a point of emphasis. He has written more than 400 magazine articles for regional and national publications. He currently lives in Saluda, North Carolina

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 A Bison's Downfall: 16,300 Years Ago 3

2 The First People: 12,000-9,700 Years Ago 7

3 Healing Waters: 1958 11

4 Old Men Listened: 9,700 Years Ago 15

5 The Work of Amateurs: 1958-1959 17

6 A Basket of Light: 9,700 Years Ago 21

7 Alluring Cheapness: 1950-1959 23

8 A Delicate Dance: 9,700 Years Ago 27

9 A Televised Discovery: 1959 31

10 A Pale Creature: 9,700 Years Ago 35

11 Sellers of Sunshine: 1950-1980 37

12 Testing Wild Eyes: 9,700 Years Ago 39

13 The Slaughter of Whales: 1970-1979 43

14 Bottle Flies: 9,700 Years Ago 49

15 Man Meets Tortoise: 1974-1979 53

16 Just Like a Real Person: 9,700 Years Ago 55

17 The Breakup: 1979 59

18 Gifts, Trade, and Exchanges: 7,600 Years Ago 61

19 New DNA Evidence: 1986 63

20 Green Stone Magic: 7,600 Years Ago 65

21 Ushered Evidence, Vast Discoveries: 1980-1989 67

22 A Mother's Burial: 6,700 Years Ago 69

23 Florida Manhunt: 1997 71

24 Meeting with Snake Bird: 6,700 Years Ago 73

25 Funding Foibles: 2000 75

26 Gourds: 6,700 Years Ago 77

27 Ancient Calendar Found: 1990-2000 79

Epilogue: 2020 81

Bibliography 83

Index 85

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