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- 1 2 Luer, George M. (2002). "The Aqui Esta Mound:Ceramic and Shell Vessels of the Early Mississippian-Influenced Phase". Tallahassee, Florida: Anthropological Publication No.15.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Cordell, Ann S. (March–June 2005). "Revisiting the Aqui Esta Mound (8CH68): Paste Variability in the Pottery Assemblage". The Florida Anthropologist. 58 (1–2): 105–120 – via University of Florida Digital Collections.
- ↑ Byers, Martin A. (2018). The Real Mound Builders of North America: A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands 200 B.C. -1450 A.D. New York, New York: Lexington Books.
