Lake Hell 'n Blazes

Lake Hell 'n Blazes Lake Helen Blazes
Location	Brevard County, Florida
Basin countries	United States

Surface area	381 acres (154 ha)

Lake Hell 'n Blazes (also Lake Helen Blazes) is on the upper reaches of the St. Johns River in Brevard County, Florida, United States, about ten miles southwest of Melbourne. The name has been attributed to the words used by early 20th century boatman while trying to navigate through what are said to have been "floating islands".^[1]

An archaeological site near the lake, known in the literature as Helen Blazes, was excavated in the 1950s. Stone artefacts from Paleo-Indians (prior to 8000 BCE), the Archaic period (8000 BCE to 1000 BCE) and later cultures were found at the site. The Paleo-Indian artefacts included Clovis points. Paleo-Indian and Archaic artefacts included tools made from chert, which is not found locally and had to be imported from at least 100 miles away. The Paleo-Indian artefacts were found in the same kind of deposits as were similar artefacts in Melbourne (ten miles to the northeast) and Vero Beach (30 miles to the south of Melbourne),^[2] both of which also yielded human and pleistocene animal fossils.

Notes

^ McCarthy:5-6
^ Purdy:29-36

References

McCarthy, Kevin (2004). St. Johns River Guidebook. Pineapple Press. ISBN 1-5616-4314-9
Purdy, Barbara A. (2008). Florida's People During the Last Ice Age. ISBN 978-0-8130-3204-7
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Hellen Blazes

Pre-Columbian North America

Archaeological cultures	North American pre-Columbian chronology – Adena – Alachua – Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Baytown – Belle Glade – Buttermilk Creek Complex – Caborn-Welborn – Calf Creek – Caloosahatchee – Clovis – Coles Creek – Deptford – Folsom – Fort Ancient – Fort Walton – Fremont – Glades – Glacial Kame – Hopewell (List of Hopewell sites) – Hohokam – Leon-Jefferson – Mississippian (List of Mississippian sites) – Mogollon – Monongahela – Old Cordilleran – Oneota – Paleo-Arctic – Paleo-Indians – Patayan – Plano – Plaquemine – Poverty Point – Prehistoric Southwest – Red Ocher – Santa Rosa-Swift Creek – St. Johns – Steed-Kisker – Tchefuncte – Tocobaga – Troyville

Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds – Bandelier National Monument – The Bluff Point Stoneworks – Cahokia – Chaco Canyon – Casa Grande – Coso Rock Art District – Eaker – Effigy Mounds National Monument – Etowah Indian Mounds – Eva – Folsom Site – Fort Ancient – Fort Center – Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument – Holly Bluff Site – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park – Kincaid Mounds – Kolomoki – Manitou Cliff Dwellings – Marksville – Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Mesa Verde – Moorehead Circle – Moundville – Mummy Cave – Nodena Site – Ocmulgee National Monument – Old Stone Fort – Parkin Park – Pinson Mounds – Portsmouth Earthworks – Poverty Point – Pueblo Bonito – Rock Eagle – Rock Hawk – Salmon Ruins – Serpent Mound – Spiro Mounds – SunWatch – Taos Pueblo – Toltec Mounds – Town Creek Indian Mound – Winterville

Miscellaneous	Ballgame – Black drink – Buhl woman – Calumet – Chunkey – Clovis point – Container Revolution – Eastern Agricultural Complex – Eden point – Effigy mound – Falcon dancer – Folsom point – Green Corn Ceremony – Horned Serpent – Kennewick man – Kiva – Metallurgy – Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing – Medicine wheel – Mound builders – N.A.G.P.R.A. – Norse colonization of the Americas – Piasa – Pueblo dwellings – Southeastern Ceremonial Complex – Three Sisters agriculture – Thunderbird – Underwater panther

Related: Genetic history · Indigenous Portal of North America · Pre-Columbian era