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Handouts

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Shell Typology Guide

This colorful handbook will help to familiarize students with the numerous types of prehistoric shells found along Florida’s coasts and waterways.

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Plants and People: A Florida Plant Guide

This colorful handbook will help to familiarize students with the numerous types of native plants found in Florida and how people have used them in the past.

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Handouts

Plants and People Handout

Use this handout to help you identify a few native Florida plants and how people from the past used them in their everyday lives.

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Faunal Remains Handout

Use this handout to learn how to tell the differences between the bones of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish.

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Ship Construction Handout

This handout provides ship vocabulary and helps you learn the names of different parts of a ship.

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Pottery Handout

Learn how to identify temper and decoration in prehistoric pottery found in Florida.

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Human Skeleton Handout

Learn to identify the bones in your body, as well as what they might reveal about you.

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Hunting Tech Handout

This handout shows how stone points have changed through time in Florida.

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Shells Handout

Use this handout to help you identify some shells found in Florida and how Native Americans used them.

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Activity Booklets

Little Salt Springs Activity Booklet

Explore thousands of years of prehistory at Little Salt Spring in Sarasota County with Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.

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Crystal River Activity Booklet

Explore thousands of years of prehistory at the Crystal River archaeological site in Citrus County, Florida, with Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.

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Weedon Island Activity Booklet

Explore thousands of years of prehistory at at the Weedon Island archaeological site in Pinellas County, Florida, with Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.

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