De Soto Volunteers: 300 BC On January 13, 1997, a crew from the Southeast Archeological Center (Dr. Guy Prentice, Principal Investigator, Margo Schwadron, field director, Elizabeth de Grummond and Lou Groh) began a three week archeological survey and testing project at De Soto National Memorial. Hundreds of people volunteered to participate in the archeological project. The project, part of the Center's Regionwide Archeological Survey Program, was designed to locate, identify and evaluate a ...

Feature Article E V E R G L A D E S N A T I O N A L P A R K Early Spanish accounts indicated that the Calusa had a complex social and political organization. Drawings by Colleen AndersonCalusa Artifacts: Remnants of a Vanished Culture In 1896, on Marco Island in southwest Florida, archeologist Frank Hamilton Cushing discovered an amazing wooden statuette of a panther six inches in height. In Cushing's words, it was "carved from a hard knot, or gnarled block of fine, dark br ...