http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/s...-projects-halt-after-workers-dig-1073931.html Fascinating, the Lake was a magnet for such a neolithic culture and I can recall stories of finding villages that have been long submerged during a particularly bad drought. As for the project itself, I am not a big fan of "swamp restoration" as it seems to me that it may do more harm than good as the terrain will take who knows how much time to assimilate the new bog in the area?
I'm on his side! We can't even control our own borders yet try to play God in the Glades typical Government thinking!
I'm with you guys on that, but I'm also wary of observing "sacred burial grounds" in general. Another sacred burial ground story: The Coco Palms hotel in Kaua'i. Famous for Elvis and the "Blue Hawaii" film in 1961, it was damaged beyond repair during hurricane Iniki in 1992. To this day the hotel still stands derelict and decrepit - right there on the ocean drive. My last trip there I jumped the fence an snuck around in the hotel, took a bunch of pictures - maybe I'll share them here in another thread? At any rate I bring it up because the owners can't re-develop the hotel because native priests have since come forward and claimed part of that land as ancient sacred burial ground. Since that claim, ALL changes to the land, plans, or hotel have been put on permanent suspension. Really sad and can't say I agree with this, but it highlights the issue of the "burial ground" aspect with other cultures. Not every burial ground is sacred; sometimes ancient people might have just died there in a plague, attack, or some other means. It's too easy to call every found skeleton as being part of a "sacred burial site". Not saying this Everglades one is not, but in general I think it's easy for priests and elders to make those claims with little challenge or verification.
