Prehistoric Pottery Examined in Southern Florida

WESTERN BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA—Graduate student Rebecca Stitt of Florida Atlantic University is investigating the pottery of the Belle Glade culture from a trash mound in Boynton Beach. “Work needed to be done at the Boynton mounds because nothing has been done there for a while. I wanted to look at ceramics specifically, to see which ceramics came from which times,” she told CBS 12 News. The people living in the Belle Glade community at Boynton Beach built their homes above the saw grass and swamps of Lake Okeechobee so that they could see others approaching. They also built canals for transportation and trade. “They were an interior culture and had no direct contact with Europeans in the early years,” added Debi Murray of the Palm Beach Historical Society.