Notice2025-05603
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
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Published
April 2, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Miami has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14465-14466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05603]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039808; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Miami, Coral
Gables, FL
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Miami has completed an
inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of associated funerary objects in this notice may
occur on or after May 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Traci Ardren, Interim Department Chair, University of
Miami, Anthropology Department, 5202 University Drive, Merrick Building
Room 102, Coral Gables, FL 33146, telephone (305) 284-2535, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b2c6d3c0d6c0d7dcf2dfdbd3dfdb9cd7d6c7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4e3a2f3c2a3c2b200e23272f2327602b2a3b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
University of Miami, and additional information on the determinations
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in
its inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
The 3,826 associated funerary objects include: Antler: 27 total (12
antler artifacts and 15 unmodified antler fragments); one bone bead;
Faunal bone: 768 total lots of faunal bone (759 skeletal elements or
fragments; nine artifacts [one chisel, one perforator, two pins, four
points, one tool]); one turtle shell; one piece of charcoal; one crab
claw; 10 clay samples; one coin; one composite tool (of bone and wood);
four coprolites (most likely alligator); 313 core samples; 70 fossils
(shell, wood, faunal, coral, flora); eight fossilized teeth (quadriped
and Miocene sharks); one tree fungus; Lithics: 129 total lots of
lithics (120 unspecified lithics; nine artifacts [six points, two
bifaces, one atlatl counterweight]); one iron nail; two greenstone
pendants; one leaf; 348 lots of rock; one lot of sand stratum; Sediment
samples: 287 total lots of sediment samples (263 sediment samples; 19
sediment with rock samples; five wood and sediment samples); one lot of
seeds; Shell: 619 lots of shell (611 unmodified land and marine shells;
eight shell artifacts [one hammer, five tools, one pendant, one
dipper]); one speleothem; Wood: 1,143 lots of wood (1,105 wood samples;
38 wood artifacts [one boomerang, one drill, one point, three tools,
five stakes, 27 unspecified]), and 86 unknown items.
These artifacts and ecofacts were recovered from the submerged
spring basin and adjacent wetland deposits at the Little Salt Spring
Site in Sarasota County, Florida (sites 8SO18 and 8SO79, respectively);
the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Limited
underwater
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archaeological test excavations occurred sporadically at the site from
1971-1980, under Carl Clausen, and continued from 1992-2011, under John
Gifford. Preservation of organic materials is exceptional given the
anoxic nature of the spring's water. The materials are currently housed
at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami. Based on
radiocarbon testing, materials recovered from LSS provide evidence of
humans inhabiting the site during the Paleo-Indian period (between
12,000-8,500 years B.P.) and the Archaic period (between 8,500-5,200
years B.P.). During the Middle Archaic, the spring was used as a
``mortuary pond.'' There is no known presence of any potentially
hazardous substances.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The University of Miami has determined that:
<bullet> The 3,826 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a connection between the associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians;
Seminole Tribe of Florida; and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative
identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 2, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the University of Miami must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The University
of Miami is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05603 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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