ABSTRACT
Marco is an important site. A small island at the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands off the southwest coast of Florida, it is higher than most of the surrounding mangrove islands, reaching a height of 18 m. The first finds at this site were made accidentally by the owner of the property while digging muck for his orange grove. He showed these finds to a visiting fisherman who described them to a visiting British army officer who recognized their significance. At Marco he dug a small test pit in the muck near where the island's owner had recently found some organic remains and in a very short time he had more than duplicated those earliest finds. The site was between shell ridges, triangular in shape, covering little more than half an acre. Removal of objects of shell, bone, and other more durable substances presented no problem.
