Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy

Name: Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy
Start: 2026-04-23T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-23T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 500 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States, New York 14607

Schedule

Thu Apr 23 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

500 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States, New York 14607 | Rochester, NY

Join us for the Archaeological Institute of America’s Spring Lecture, featuring Robert Carr, Director of the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy!
Archaeological excavations at Brickell Point in 1998, uncovered a circle of postholes and cut basins into the limestone bedrock measuring 11.2 meters in diameter. Within the floor of the feature were a shark skeleton, a bottlenosed dolphin cranium, and a sea turtle shell—all aligned in an east-west axis. Artifacts included numerous non-local materials such as basaltic celts from the Appalachian Mountains, copper from the Mid-West, and galena.
Since that discovery, twelve other circles have been uncovered at the mouth of the Maimi River. Radiocarbon dates of AD 200–700 indicate a major town and trade center associated with the Tequesta, a stratified society that did not practice agriculture but created a complex society based on maritime resources. This is the southernmost prehistoric trade center in the US, 1500 years before the creation of the City of Miami.