Ancient Miami: the Tekesta

Ancient Miami: the Tekesta

NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY

Describe what life may have been like for the first people to live in Miami.

What it your idea of ‘old’?

How old is old? 

What is the oldest time that you can conceive of? 

What is ancient and which parts of the world do you associate with ‘ancient’?  

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Multiple Choice

The presence of fossils in a sinkhole on the Charles Deering Estate was discovered in 1979 was found at which site in Miami?

• Met Square

• The Miami Circle

• The Cutler Fossil Site

• The El Portal Mound

Multiple Choice

What is the only complete cut-in-rock prehistoric structural footprint discovered in eastern North America?

• The Miami Circle

• The Cutler Fossil Site

• Arch Creek Natural Bridge

• Met Square

Multiple Choice

Gerald Marston, a preservation board member for the City of Miami, said that “If they gave it a name, it’s the birthplace of Miami.’’ What site is he referring to?

• Arch Creek Burial Mound

• Met Square: Prehistoric village in downtown Miami

• The Well of Ancient Mysteries

• The El Portal Mound

Multiple Choice

Why doesn't Ishmael Bermudez, owner of the property that houses the Well of Ancient Mysteries, want to sell his home?

• He says the property stands on sacred ground.

• He says that he will be homeless if he sells his home.

• He says that he is not being offered enough money to sell.

• He disagrees with the zoning designation

Multiple Choice

What is the first archaeological site to be publicly recognized and preserved in Miami-Dade County?

• The Little River Mound in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood of El Portal

• The Cutler Fossil Site which dates back ten thousand years

• Peacock Park in Coconut Grove

• Bayfront Park in downtown Miami

• Charles Hadley Park in Liberty City

Multiple Choice

Why is North Miami’s Arch Creek Park significant?

• The park was once inhabited by Native Americans from 500 B.C. to 1300 A.D.

• It was named after Mr. Archie Creek, the first principal of Arch Creek Elementary

• It was the site of a massive residential complex in what is now downtown Miami

• It was the site of a massive battle between the kingdoms of Calusa and Tomoka

Multiple Choice

Which site does this information apply to?

“The bones of 42 individual dire wolves, mostly juveniles, have been recovered from the sinkhole. Human bones, teeth and artifacts were found in association with the bones of Pleistocene animals at the sinkhole.”

• Met Square

• The Well of Ancient Mysteries

• The Little River Burial Mound

• The Cutler Fossil site.

Multiple Choice

The Miami Circle, also known as the Brickell Point site, is believed to be the southern part of the pre-Columbian village of Tequesta that used to exist where?

• In the Sherwood forest neighborhood of El Portal

• On both the north and south banks of the Miami River.

• Near historic Charles Avenue in Coconut Grove

• In what is now Enchanted Forest Park

Multiple Choice

Local archaeologist Robert Carr found the remains of scores of Tequesta people in a burial ground under the third phase of the Met Miami development which includes a Whole Foods and apartments in downtown Miami. As per state law, the remains of the Tequesta people were reburied in an undisclosed location. According to historians and archaeologists, what is this site called?

• The Well of Ancient Mysteries

• Arch Creek Natural Bridge

• The Miami Circle

• Met Square

Multiple Choice

Ishmael Bermudez calls his garden ___________ because of the artifacts that he found therein. He believes ________ was a sacred place for member of the Tequesta

• The “Well of Ancient Mysteries”

• The Cutler Fossil Site

• The Miami Circle

• El Portal Mound

Multiple Choice

The El Portal Mound is also known for having

• A cave

• A museum

• A Civil War cannon

• Evidence of sea level rise

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“The Tequesta site is surrounded by a mangrove community, wetlands that come and go with the seasons, a tropical hardwood hammock, an oak hammock and a pine ridge. An archeological survey revealed that Tequesta Indians lived on the land and used part of it as a ceremonial burial site.”

What local site fits this description?

• Arch Creek Park

• The Cutler Fossil Site

• The Met Square Zone

• The Well of Ancient Mysteries

Multiple Choice

Where is the Cutler Fossil Site located?

• on both the north and south banks of the Miami River.

• In the City of North Miami

• downtown Miami

• on the Charles Deering Estate in South Miami-Dade

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What is the significance of the Cutler Fossil Site?

• It was the site of the first landing by the French explorer Jacques Clouseau

• It provides archaeological evidence of life in Miami dating back 10,000 years ago

• It has evidence of a lost sea civilization destroyed by a giant tsunami 20,000 years ago

• It has a vast network of underground caverns that are still inhabited by Tekesta

Open Ended

Look up the word “sacred.” Citing evidence, what does it mean?

Multiple Choice

What does "BCE" stand for?

• Before the Common Era (before the presumed birth of the historical figure Jesus Christ)

• Because Champions Endure

• By the Cause of Excellence

• Before Creating, there must be Effort

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What does "CE" stand for?

• the Common Era (everything that happened after the presumed birth of the historical figure Jesus Christ)

• Cause ‘n effect

• Creased envelope

• Common Elephants

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Which era do we live in?

• We live in the prehistoric era

• We live in the Common Era

• We live in the ancient era

• We live in the Neolithic Era

Multiple Choice

How old is the El Portal Mound?

• It dates back to the year 600.

• It is over 10,000 years old

• It was built in 1979

• 2,740 years old

Multiple Choice

Based on available archaeological evidence, which is older: the Miami Circle or the Met Square?

• The Miami Circle

• The Met Square

• Both the Miami Circle and Met Square sites date as far back as 2,000 years

Multiple Choice

The Cutler Fossil Site dates back to ______

• approximately 10,000 years ago

• circa 8000 BCE

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

If a time machine took the class back 2,000 years in the past, what year would it be?

• 2000 BCE

• 200 BCE

• 21 CE

• 0

Multiple Choice

When was the presence of fossils in a sinkhole on the Charles Deering Estate discovered?

• 10,000 years ago

• 8000 BCE

• in 1979

• in 2014

Multiple Choice

Why has Mr. Bermudez, the owner of the Well of Ancient Mysteries, not wanted to sell his home even though the land is worth almost $2 million?

• He says the property stands on sacred ground

• He is waiting for the market to make the price go higher

• He would have no other place to live

• Because he likes living in North Miami

Multiple Choice

Arch Creek Park is located in the city of North Miami. This historic park was once _____.

• inhabited by several Native American tribes that lived in ancient Florida from 500 B.C. to

  1300 A.D.

• The site of a series of sports fields where the Iroquois practiced activities that prepared men and women for battle against their enemies

• An amusement park for retirees from New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island

• The site where North Miami’s tallest building used to stand: the Tiger Tower

Multiple Choice

TIMELINE: which timeline correctly shows when both the Miami circle and Met Square date back to.

Multiple Choice

TIMELINE: which timeline correctly shows when the Cutler Fossil Site dates back to?

Multiple Choice

TIMELINE: The timeline pictured here shows the date for which ancient Tekesta site?

• Cutler Fossil Site

• Arch Creek Mounds

• Well of Ancient Mysteries

• Miami Circle and Met Square

Multiple Choice

TIMELINE: The timeline pictured here shows the date for which ancient Tekesta site?

• Cutler Fossil Site

• El Portal Mound

• Well of Ancient Mysteries

• Miami Circle and Met Square

Multiple Choice

TIMELINE: The timeline pictured here shows the date for which ancient Tekesta site?

• Cutler Fossil Site

• El Portal Mound

• Well of Ancient Mysteries

• Miami Circle and Met Square

Multiple Choice

VIDEO QUESTION: Which video does not have anyone talking?

• “Ancient Tequesta Village Discovered in Downtown”

• “Prehistoric village found in area under downtown Miami”

• “Miami dig unearths evidence of sea rise”

• “Art Eighty Seven House”

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VIDEO QUESTION: Which local site is “being called ‘one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the US’”?

• An ancient Native American village in the limestone surface of what is now downtown Miami

• The El Portal Mound

• Arch Creek Mound

• The Well of Ancient Mysteries

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VIDEO QUESTION: According to the videos, who is the Executive Director of South Florida’s Archaeological and Historical Conservancy?

• Robert Carr

• Bob Carr

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

VIDEO QUESTION: According to the Miami Herald video, how far back in history does Dr. Carr say that the Tekesta site in downtown Miami may go?

• 1955

• 1700

• 700 BCE

• 15,000 BC

Multiple Choice

VIDEO QUESTION: What are some examples of sea level rise found by the archaeologists excavating the Met Square dig site?

• Coconut trees that were underwater

• A building’s brick foundation from the 1800s that is now underwater

• All of the above

Open Ended

VIDEO QUESTION: Watching the “Art Eighty Seven House” video about the Well of Ancient Mysteries, what do you notice? Describe everything that you see – up close as well as in the background. Describe everything that you hear. Do the sights and sounds “match”?

Explain your response.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following were Miami’s first civilization?

• Tekesta

• Tequesta

• All of the above