Part one of the 'Living on the Edge' series deals with lessons from the past. Hurricane Ian struck Southwest Florida in the same place where Florida’s powerful Calusa natives lived over 2,000 years ...

Sure, you may already know that March is National Celery Month, National Cheerleading Safety Month and National Umbrella Month, but did you know it’s also Archaeology Month? For Tropicalia’s purposes, ...

Once fish were captured in watercourts, they were likely harvested with nets or speared. Florida Museum / Illustration by Merald Clark Beginning roughly 2,000 years ago, the Calusa enjoyed centuries ...

ORLANDO, Fla., April 2 (UPI) --Florida's Native American Calusa nation had much more advanced engineering systems than previously realized, and they allowed members to capture and store fish in large ...

Mound Key (center) in Estero Bay was the capital of the Native Calusa people when the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century.(Merald Clark) In 1895, Frank Hamilton Cushing, a pioneering ...