Muspa Culture, Key Marco and other Platform Villages
A cluster of islands on the Gulf Coast of Florida, immediately south of Naples, FL and southwest of Lake Okeechobee once held numerous mounds and town sites. Know as the Ten Thousand Islands Region, it contains the villages and mounds of an unidentified Archaic Period people, the Muspa Culture and the Calusa People, who absorbed the Muspa. The Muspa or Thousand Islands Culture in recent years has been considered a division of the Lake Okeechobee-Glades Culture. The oldest cluster of shell mounds, on what was formerly called Horr’s Island, date as far back as 4700 BC. Another mound there contains … Read more