246 THE FLORIDA ANTHROPOLOGIST 2006 VoL. 59(3-4) er sr PS SS SL TS these levels. Review of Sites in the Miami River Area with Human Remains Miami Sand Mound #4 The 25 primarily random, isolated human remains found at the Miami Circle site are scant compared to the remains that have been recovered from and around Brickell Park during historic times to the present (Carr et al. 2001). Brickell Park is located approximately 500 ft south of Brickell Point on Biscayne Bay (Figure 2). There is evidence that a burial mound, Miami Sand Mound #4 (8DA13), which is the closest known mound to the Miami Circle (Eck 2000), was located near this park (Florida Master File n.d.). Wyman (1875) may have excavated part of this mound in 1869, but he does not record finding any human material. In the 1920s, the property presently owned by the First Presbyterian Church, located adjacent to Brickell Park on the south side, was owned by Mrs. Edna Rickmer. She was quoted as saying that an “old Indian skeleton” was buried under the front steps of the house (Cox 1986). Carr interviewed Mrs. Rickmer’s daughter, who reported to him that the mound was located on the south side of the Rickmer house (Rickmer to Carr, personal communication, December 1996). Goggin reports upon the work of others in the Brickell Point area and quotes Karl Squires as saying that “human bones have been found” in Miami Sand Mound #4 (n.d.:120). Squires also communicated to Goggin that this mound had been leveled (personal communication to Goggin, 8/12/1946, in Florida Master Site File n.d.). Carr believes, based on a review of the data, that the mound was entirely on the church property and did not extend into the park. The mound’s age is unknown, but it has been assigned the broad time frame of “Glades, period unknown” (Florida Master Site File n.d.), therefore it is contemporaneous, in part, with the Brickell Point occupation. Brickell Park Cemetery Test excavations undertaken at Brickell Park in 1981 by the Miami-Dade Historic Preservation Division (MDHPD) under the direction of author Carr were intended to determine the southward extent of archaeological deposits within the park (Carr 1981). These excavations were conducted during monitoring of the construction of the adjacent Holiday Inn. Three test pits that were dug recovered fragmented and scat- tered human bones, including loose teeth, one phalange, and a possible skull fragment. In May through June of 2001, AHC conducted a due diligence archaeological assessment of Brickell Park, which consisted of 41 test pits. Of these, 17 (41.5%) were positive for human remains. One in situ burial was found, as well as a mandible with a complete set of teeth, 3 skull fragments, a humerus, a patella, 46 long bone fragments, 8 miscellaneous fragments, and 38 teeth. The burial, located adjacent to the First Presbyterian Church property, is incomplete and appears to be a secondary, bundle burial evidenced by the tight group- ing ofall of the long bones as if they had been stacked together. Apart from the burial, other remains clustered in the northeast quadrant of the park, along the historic shoreline. Carr and colleagues conclude that the Brickell Park area represents a “significant prehistoric Tequesta cemetery,” and that it is probably the mortuary correlate to site 8DA12, Brickell Point (Carr et al. 2001:12). Recent excavations undertaken in parts of Brickell Park in 2005-2006 indicate that a moderate quantity of human remains is located near the park’s northern boundary (Carr in progress). Miami Sand Mound #2 Other sand mounds, which are possibly burial mounds, also existed in the Brickell Point area (Figure 2). Miami Sand Mound #2 (8DA15) was- located about 200 yards from the Biscayne Bay shore and one quarter mile south of the Miami River (Douglass 1885; Florida Master Site File n.d.). Straight (n.d.) locates the mound one-half block south of present day SW 8* Street west to Miami Avenue. This places it south- southwest of Mound #4. Douglass (1885:145) describes a burial mound “about 200 yards from the shore of the Bay, at a point about a quarter of a mile south of the [Miami] river’, where he “found many burials, but in such a state of decay, as to be merely distinguishable by a shade in the sand”. He reports the discovery ofa “beautiful earthen cup symmetrically shaped, and ornamented with incised lines of graceful pattern...” within the mound (Douglass 1885:145). Sand Mound #2 is tentatively assigned an early Glades II date (Willey 1949). This date, if accurate, indicates that the mound post-dates the main occupa- tion period of the Miami Circle site. The mound was probably leveled in the construction of Brickell Avenue in 1896 (Straight n.d.). Miami Sand Mound #1 Miami Sand Mound #1] (8DAJA4) is located on the north bank of the Miami River, apart from the aforementioned mounds (Figure 2). It is located about 500 feet north of the mouth of the Miami River and 800 feet west of Biscayne Bay, and was leveled in 1896 by workers who were building the Royal Palm Hotel (Eck 2000). Goggin describes this mound as a low, sand mound 75 feet by 100 feet long and 4 to 5 feet high (Florida Master Site File n.d.). Approximately 50-60 burials were removed and were reinterred at the present-day corner of Southeast Second Street and Southeast Second Avenue, now underneath a parking garage. There is evidence from an account given by an anonymous daughter of Captain Weatherly that these graves contained the remains of early settlers, Fort Dallas soldiers, and Native Americans (Eck 2000). The earliest date of this mound is unknown, however, artifacts from it suggest use into the Spanish Mission and historic periods. Atlantis (83DA1082) and Santa Maria (8DA2132) Sites Two other sites located near Brickell Point on the Bay have mortuary components (Figure 2). Both the Atlantis Site (8DA1082) and the Santa Maria site (83DA2132), located in the same section, range, and township about 2.5 km south of the Miami River on the limestone ridge, contain Late Archaic