Cultural Resource Reconnaissance of the National Key Deer Wildlife Refuge

摘要

A summary of the archeology and history of the National Key Deer Wildlife Refuge, based upon a literature search and reconnaissance survey, is provided. Systematic survey of six areas projected to be impacted by construction and development through Fiscal Year 1980 was conducted. The only prehistoric site recorded on the Refuge, Watsons Hammock, is a black earth and shell midden occupied during Glades I late and Glades IIa and IIb times, or about A.D. 500 to A.D. 1000. The site has been heavily borrowed and spread about; however, considering the dearth of sites remaining in the Keys, its capacity for yielding information important in prehistory is considered sufficient to warrant inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.