Posted on 01/03/2008 1:08:31 PM PST by BGHater
The 2,000-year-old site remains under temporary protection laid in 2003.
Nine years ago, an array of American Indians, environmentalists, preservationists, New Age spiritualists, diviners, even Cub Scouts rose up to save the Miami Circle, a 2,000-year-old artifact that many embraced as America's own Stonehenge.
But today, the Circle -- a series of loaf-shaped holes chiseled into the limestone bedrock at the mouth of the Miami River -- is interred beneath bags of sand and gravel, laid over the formation in 2003 to protect it from the elements.
And though taxpayers shelled out $27.6 million to purchase the 38-foot Circle and its surrounding two acres, visitors to the site's planned archaeological park likely will never see the actual work of some of Miami's earliest inhabitants.
"At this point, we don't know a way," said Ryan Wheeler, Florida's state archaeologist. "Maybe in 50 or 100 years archaeologists will have all kinds of technology . . . that we can't imagine today."
The reburial was supposed to be temporary, while officials settled on a plan to manage and display the Circle, which has inspired as many theories about its origin and function as it has claims about its spiritual energy and mystical powers.
Wheeler and other experts who have studied the Circle think the holes were dug by the Tequesta Indians to support wooden posts for a tribal center or other important structure. But it has been theorized to be everything from a celestial observatory to a landing pad for aliens.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Somebody has been industriously piling field rock into something recognizable. Before it was fenced off and got made into some kind of museum it was a few big stones and a lot of large stones kind of in a meaningless heap like it got picked over by farmers for a couple hundred years. There was the big sacrifice stone still there.
Ringling Brothers started off in South Florida with just one 38 ft. round ring. Seriesly! Look it up!
Did they find any, like, reeeal old elephant dung?
Welcome to the Lucky Circle Casino and hotel!
Why take a chance anywhere else
Only out tables are in perfect alignment with the mystic wheel!
Visit the Mystic wheel and museum on the ground floor.
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“Catherine Hummingbird Ramirez, a self-styled Carib tribal queen..”
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“landing pad for aliens”
On balloons - from Mexico.
IIRC the Caribs were cannibals.
I suggest not letting the barbecue sauce drip on your hands if you and she ever have lunch together.
8^)
I wonder what she looks like?
Ben Lurkin you have a good sense of humor.
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