The Calusa Indians were native to Southwest Florida and for many centuries accumulated shell mounds, engineered canals, and sustained tens of thousands of people from the fish and shellfish found ...

Many Calusa Indian shell and human burial mounds — some more than 30 feet high — dot our area's islands and shoreline, perhaps most notably on Sanibel in the J.N. "Ding" Darling National ...

The now-67-acre Pineland site includes a complex series of shell mounds overlooking Pine Island Sound as well as remnants of a 2.6-mile, 30-foot-wide, 6-foot-deep canal dug by the Calusa from the ...

The complex includes several Calusa Indian shell mounds, a hand-dug canal, an interpretive center and a boardwalk through ...

They were engineers. The Calusa built mounds and villages from Charlotte Harbor to the Ten Thousand Islands around Everglades City. They were fishermen who used great canoes to travel the Gulf Coast.

Additionally, few extensive excavations have been undertaken in shell mounds of South Florida. The Calusa created the mounds, which are essentially archaic garbage heaps, when they discarded their ...

The Calusa were once the most powerful people in all South Florida. For many centuries, they built their culture, accumulated huge shell mounds, engineered canals and sustained thousands of people ...

But according to Subic, Hudson and the others were pursuing rumors that Spanish pirates hid gold in Calusa shell mounds. The men began searching for that treasure more than a decade ago, Subic said.

Hurricane Ian struck Southwest Florida in the same place where Florida’s powerful Calusa natives lived over 2,000 years ago. From dealing with sea level fluctuations to a massive hurricane ...

Calusa Indians, cracker pioneers and condo dwellers have all made their mark on Marco Island. The Calusa left behind shell mounds--and much more. By the 1960s, most of the pioneer outpost was ...

The complex includes several Calusa Indian shell mounds, a hand-dug canal, an interpretive center and a boardwalk through native plants the Calusa used.