Secrets of the Springs: Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring

This is an intriguing story filled with touching details that bring the characters and their environment to life, while intertwining their story with the modern story of the scientists and others who discovered the people, fossils, and artifacts. The pictures greatly add to both the past and present narratives, and flesh out the imagery of the highly readable and accessible text. Highly recommend!

I cannot say enough about Brown and Derk's book. Written for the non-scientist general reader it is the first and only book about two very important heritage sites, not only in the Southeastern United States but in the world. Beautifully illustrated, and written like a story I applaud both the authors, as well as Roman & Littlefield for bringing these unique Florida Paleo and Archaic Period sites to the general public. The title has a double meaning for as I relate in the first chapter of my book about the period that followed, the Woodland and the mound-building Indians, an elite group of Florida archaeologists and the State of Florida, have kept this amazing prehistory and the important archaeological sites a secret. Now for the first time in 126 years, everyone can learn of the entire prehistory of South Florida from 16,000 B.C. to 1700 A.D.. I as with Brown and Derks am not a credentialed archaeologist. But like them I know the value and importance of wading through scientific data in order to tell the remarkable stories of Florida's first people and its crowning achievements by hunter-gathering mound builders. That Bill Marquardt penned a glowing review of a book by non-archaeologists indicates that maybe more of Florida's secret treasures ill be available to the public in the decades to come.Ted Ehmann, Author of The People of the Great Circle, 2019, Pineapple Press

I love Florida springs and most information about them.