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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pottery made "in the last few hundred years" also found on the site, indicating that the Montana Indians may have acquired their present elaborate pottery style only recently...
...hotels? Hotels now jam every inch of the commercially available beach front; the rest, about one mile of beach front, is zoned for private estates. To build the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc, waivers had to be secured allowing private-land to be put to commercial use; for its site the Americana had to go six miles north of Lincoln Road-the Beach's main stem-to Bal Harbour, which is, strictly speaking, outside Miami Beach...
...eight years he winnowed cryptic manuscripts, dug test holes in promising bits of marsh. He did not find Spina, but he did not give up hope: a government reclamation project was slowly draining the lagoons that covered its presumed site. When the water receded, the exposed flats showed nothing of interest, but Dr. Alfieri, an old hand at archaeological detective work, waited for nature to add the final, necessary touch...
When the new pictures were developed, they showed a broad, L-shaped canal 60 ft. wide and equivalent to the famous Grand Canal that is the main street of Venice. Closer study showed other canals and scores of rectangular blocks for houses and public buildings. The built-upon site covered 850 acres, the plants growing darkly green over silted canals and yellowish green over unnourishing brick and rubble...
...Spina site will produce no stately, columned temples. All that remains is the foundations of the city, but when they are excavated carefully, they may yield information more interesting than any number of temples. The brilliant Etruscan culture, which flourished before the great days of Rome, is a deep mystery. Etruscan tombs are stuffed with striking art works, but Etruscan remains other than tombs are scarce. Out of Spina, covered for 2,000 years with preserving mud, may come knowledge of Etruscan buildings, government, religion and social structure. Historians may learn where the Etruscans came from; they may even find...