... in honor of the civilization that built their lives with shells, and in honor of the shell mounds that remain today as beautiful natural reminders of the lives of Calusa Indians.

The Calusa: "The Shell Indians" The Calusa (kah LOOS ah) lived on the sandy shores of the ... Shell mounds can still be found today in many parts of southern Florida.

T he Calusa Indians, a poorly understood group of bygone Native ... black arrow points to a large, elongated, and completely undisturbed Calusa shell mound ...

Overlooking the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, the Fort Myers Beach Cultural and Environmental Learning Center occupies a 3 acre Calusa Indian shell mound complex of national ...

Visit two archaeological sites to view the intricate water courts, canal systems, burial mounds, pottery pieces and enormous shell mounds left behind by the Calusa Indians ...

A Key to the Past For more than 1500 years the Calusa Indians occupied Pineland, now a 240-acre, internationally significant archaeological site. The indians' enormous shell mounds ...

... shellfish were a relatively minor component in the Calusa diet, shell middens and shell mounds of ... In 1711 270 Indians, including many Calusa, were evacuated from the Florida Keys to ...

Visit two archaeological sites to view the intricate water courts, canal systems, burial mounds, pottery pieces and enormous shell mounds left behind by the Calusa Indians ...

The Calusa: "The Shell Indians" Objective: The students will be able to identify ... waterways: fashion: marauding: mound: archaeologists: artifacts: hollowed-out: fierce

More information on Southwest Florida Archaeology and Calusa Indian Culture You are here: Framed in forests of mangrove trees, the shell mounds on Mound Key rise more than 30 feet ...