WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - Researchers continued to clean an archaeological site at Wakulla Spring State Park that was left damaged by Hurricane Michael.
During the storm, three trees were knocked over and on top of the site that used to be home to the Weeden Island Cultures over a thousand years ago.
The trees caused dirt to move and while that might not seem like a lot, it can destroy the efforts to survey the earth.
Doctor Willet Boyer, Associate Scholar at Acuilla Research Institute, said this site is very important to Florida's culture and needs to be preserved.
"For the people who built this site this would have been an area of much importance as a modern day church or synagogue or whatever it would be, so that kind of damage is effectively destroying something that itself is a cultural monument," said Dr. Boyer.
Boyer said the site has been damaged in the past from falling trees.