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DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Napolitano. Traci Ardren. Scott Fitzpatrick. Victor Thompson. Michelle LeFebvre.

Archaeological research on prehistoric settlements in the Florida Keys has been largely sporadic and diffuse. To help improve our understanding of when the Keys were settled and their relationship to Calusa and other groups regionally, we revisited the well-known site of 8MO17 on Upper Matecumbe Key in the central Florida Keys and conducted preliminary subsurface investigation. Preliminary results from the newly established Matecumbe Chiefdom Project have revealed dense, stratified midden...