Seminole Rest Wayside, What Do You Think?

The second stop along the Seminole Rest path.

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Archeologists believe that women and children gathered shellfish along the shore, using their feet and hands or digging with sticks or rakes. Meanwhile, the men fished in the deeper waters of the Mosquito Lagoon or Atlantic Ocean, using fish traps, nets, barbed arrows, or spears. 

What did the Timucua look for when choosing a location a location to obtaine food? What might cause them to return to the same spot repeatedly? Was this a clam-processing site as archeologists suggest or could it have had other purposes?