6/30/22 Report - Big Beach Holes In The Media. History of the Caribbean Through Pottery. Tropical Situation.

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusve use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Big Holes Found On Beach
See Fox10 link below.

The media has been reporting on big holes being found on beaches, reportedly because of a new Tik Tok challenge to see how big a hole you can dig.  

SANIBEL, Fla. (WBBH) - People living in parts of southwest Florida are not happy with a new TikTok trend that is leaving giant holes on beaches.

Making castles and digging holes is what the beach is all about, but leaving colossal craters is not.

“I almost fell in one,” Allison Ward said...

Here is that link.

TikTok trend leaves giant holes on beaches (fox10tv.com)

Of course, they are telling people the danger of the holes and to fill them in.  I'd like to find some of these energetic young people with nothing better to and put them to work some time.

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Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently turned to pottery to tease apart the navigational history of the Caribbean, analyzing the composition of 96 fired clay fragments across 11 islands...

Many studies have relied almost entirely on similarities in style to distinguish between different cultures and infer their movements. But, as Bloch explains, this method has often left more questions than answers and excludes material with potentially valuable information.

“The vast majority of pottery that we find anywhere in the world is going to be undecorated. It’s going to be things used for cooking or storage, which are typically plain and often get ignored because they’re seen as generic,” she said.

Rather than studying the minutiae of varying styles, the researchers focused instead on what the pottery was made of. Using a laser to etch microscopic lines into their samples, the researchers determined the exact amounts and identities of each element in the clay used to make the pottery. Their final analysis included more than seven decades’ worth of archaeological collections that span over 1,000 years of Indigenous Caribbean history...

Here is the link for the rest of that artiicle.

Indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway – Florida Museum Science (ufl.edu)

Much of that applies to dating other things, including bottles and spikes.  I'll be referring back to this one.

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Here is an email I received.

Hello again,

Great information, as always!

   Now I look at my bronze spikes totally different! As the "head" of them, may not be at all! I don't have many, and the last one I found, at Singer Island, took about 15 minutes to dig out of the sandstone! I remember that clearly, as I forgot my chipping/pry tool and ended up using a piece of aluminum bar stock that I had found a little earlier in the hunt! Without that, it would still be entombed there, as I most likely would not have been able to relocate it!

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

👍👍    Joe D.

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

That yellow one could turn north.   Don't know yet.  Invest Two will stay south.

No big surf predicted for the Treasure Coast this week.

Good hunting,

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