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| Remarkably preserved cord made of twine found at a Calusa site. Source: See lNews Press link below. |
The above cord is just one of many rare artifacts that were preserved by the wetland conditions at a Pineland Calusa site.
No one has seen remnants of ancient daily life like this since the 1800s, when a Smithsonian expedition led by pioneering anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing unearthed more than 1,000 remarkably well-preserved artifacts, including the celebrated Key Marco cat near Marco Island.
Some of the more extraordinary things to emerge from the Pine Island pit are pieces of netting, complete with tied-on weights. Archaeologist Bill Marquardt, curator in South Florida archaeology and ethnography at the Florida Museum of Natural History and director of Pineland's Randel Research Center points to a bagged white clam with a hole knocked in it, threaded with knotted twine.
"These ark shells they used to weight down their gill nets and their seine nets, with the knots still tied — that’s the kind of preservation we’re getting. In addition to that, we’re getting pieces of wood you can still see the working marks on, and seeds such as squash seeds that will help us figure out what kinds of plants they were using."...
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2017/03/23/pineland-wet-site-dig-yields-rare-calusa-artifacts/99210580/
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Some of the more extraordinary things to emerge from the Pine Island pit are pieces of netting, complete with tied-on weights. Archaeologist Bill Marquardt, curator in South Florida archaeology and ethnography at the Florida Museum of Natural History and director of Pineland's Randel Research Center points to a bagged white clam with a hole knocked in it, threaded with knotted twine.
"These ark shells they used to weight down their gill nets and their seine nets, with the knots still tied — that’s the kind of preservation we’re getting. In addition to that, we’re getting pieces of wood you can still see the working marks on, and seeds such as squash seeds that will help us figure out what kinds of plants they were using."...
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2017/03/23/pineland-wet-site-dig-yields-rare-calusa-artifacts/99210580/
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I was looking for some information on a recently found bottle and found a web site that gave some interesting facts. Besides being interesting they might help you narrow down the date range of any old beer bottles.
The web site is the www.beerbottlecollector.com.
Here are the facts that I mentioned.
Did you now that Glass did not become widely used until after the Civil War (1865)..??
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Did you now that up to 1860 all beer bottles had pontiled bases...??
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Did you now that beer bottles from 1860-1870 are very rare??
from 1870-1880 they are scarce. From 1880-1890 they are Semi- Common.??
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Did you now that Bottles marked Ale or Porter were first Manufactured from 1850-1860..??
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Did you now that until the 1870's beer bottles were sealed with cork..??
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Did you now that the lightening stopper was not invented until the late 19th century..??
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Did you now that before the 1930's beer came in green bottles then after the Prohibition,
brown glass was used because it was thought to preserve freshness by filtering out sunlight ..??
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Did you now that in 1873, a British inventor Hiram Codd invented a bottle with a glass marble
confined inside its neck, When the bottle was filled with an effervescent liquid, gas pressure forced
the marble to the top of the neck, sealing the bottle.??
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Did you now that from 1879 to early 1900's the Hutchinson stopper was commonly used. A heavy wire
loop controlled a rubbler gasket that stayed inside the cork..??
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On the left is a bottle that I found a fews days ago, and on the right one that I found a long time ago.
The one on the left reads "FEHRS." The one on the right reads "FRANK FEHR BREWING CO."
I think they are both Fehr beer bottles. The one on the left looks newer than the one on the right.
Above we read, Did you now that before the 1930's beer came in green bottles then after the Prohibition,... brown glass was used because it was thought to preserve freshness by filtering out sunlight ..??
And that would suggest that the one on the left is later than 1930, which I would have guessed anyway, and that the one on the right, which looks more green in person, is older than 1930.
Just an example of how the facts listed might help you narrow down a date range for beer bottles.
While I'm at it, here is another found beer bottle.This one is a Pabst bottle. Also brown. Looks very much like the brown bottle above, but judging from the additional embossing, I would guess maybe a touch older than the brown Fehr bottle.
It shouldn't be hard to get a better date estimate on any of these bottles with a little more research.
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If Congress has shown me anything in the past week, it is the glaring need for term limits. Those guys that make a lifetime job out of it need to go.
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Not much change in beach conditions to report. Expect another day or two of three to five foot surf.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
