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The view at right is an
in-field shot looking W toward the distant Brickell
Avenue bridge abutments through a knot of
excavators working in and around the Septic Tank area. In the near
foreground is the opening into the “chaotic zone” – here covered with a
temporary sheet of plywood (“Don’t Step Here!”).
Immediately to its right can be seen part of the pedestal containing half
of a shark “burial” (beneath a framed screen) which was bisected by the
extreme S end of the (later) footer wall. The chaotic zone as it appears,
uncovered, is shown at left in the model.
Of the shark “burial”, the Directors initially were calling it
“deliberate” and “sacred”… but on no clearly stated grounds or
actual excavated accompaniements or dispositions. Subsequent radiocarbon dates established
it as relating to the Spanish Colonial era, and so it can not have figured
in any (portentious) or ceremonial activities of the prehistoric
inhabitants….
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