Solstice Celebration Unveils New Data on Miami Circle as Hardy Few Brave Florida Thunderstorms to Demonstrate Support NEWS Images Available Upon Request For Immediate Release For further Information: (305) 946-6666 T. L. Riggs, the surveyor who originally discovered the famed "Miami Circle" during a routine Brickell Point archaeological investigation last Summer, yesterday revealed startling new clues as to its possible reason for existing. In a presentation made during the first "Miami Circle Solstice Celebration" held in approximately 2000 years in Mary Brickell Park, and despite days of Florida downpours that kept attendance low, Riggs unveiled to the enthusiastic audience of hardy "Circle supporters" three highly sophisticated new models of his own scientific "reconstruction" of the Circle [photo of Riggs and one model]. These clearly show that the Miami Circle -- those 30 puzzling basins in the rock that form a perfect ring 37 feet across -- may NOT have been the remains of "a Tequesta Indian council house" (as some have argued since discovery), but potentially "... the foundation holes of a former 'American Stonehenge.'" Riggs arguments and new evidence are slowly gaining additional supporters -- including former NASA consultant and Angstrom Excellence in Science Medal winner, Richard C. Hoagland, who witnessed Riggs first-time public presentation of his theory. Said Hoagland afterward, "This fits in remarkably well with our own, independent studies: that the Miami Circle was once apparently part of a much more sophisticated, world-wide ancient network of similar 'Sacred Sites' -- which included, of course, England's Stonehenge." Later in the evening, following an afternoon of musical acts and dance in "celebration of the Circle" -- and following addresses on the current state of the Miami Circle scientific investigation, by Miami Circle archaeologist Bob Carr, and Jim Adams, another archaeologist with the National Park Service -- Hoagland made his own presentation of some of the mathematical evidence supporting these even more remarkable conclusions. Riggs new data consists of the revelation that he has actually found "six of the original stones that once occupied the holes ... confirming that the Miami Circle could be, in fact, the foundation of a miniature 1/3rd version of the famous Stonehenge. We also have demonstrated that its astronomical alignments, like its British counterpart, carefully marked both the solstices and equinoxes ..." Riggs, in his detailed wooden models of this astronomical geometry, depicted the placement of up to 30 carefully "dressed," four-foot- high limestone "monoliths," standing in the 30 known geometric "basins" (and composed of actual hand-carved limestone, from near the Circle site itself), to illustrate the concept. Bob Carr and Jim Adams remain skeptical but open to Riggs' model. "I have yet to see and measure the stones myself," Adams added.

Said Hoagland afterward, "This fits in remarkably well with our own, independent studies: that the Miami Circle was once apparently part of a much more sophisticated, world-wide ancient network of similar 'Sacred Sites' -- which included, of course, England's Stonehenge." Later in the evening, following an afternoon of musical acts and dance in "celebration of the Circle" -- and following addresses on the current state of the Miami Circle scientific investigation, by Miami Circle archaeologist Bob Carr, and Jim Adams, another archaeologist with the National Park Service -- Hoagland made his own presentation of some of the mathematical evidence supporting these even more remarkable conclusions.

Riggs new data consists of the revelation that he has actually found "six of the original stones that once occupied the holes ... confirming that the Miami Circle could be, in fact, the foundation of a miniature 1/3rd version of the famous Stonehenge. We also have demonstrated that its astronomical alignments, like its British counterpart, carefully marked both the solstices and equinoxes ..." Riggs, in his detailed wooden models of this astronomical geometry, depicted the placement of up to 30 carefully "dressed," four-foot- high limestone "monoliths," standing in the 30 known geometric "basins" (and composed of actual hand-carved limestone, from near the Circle site itself), to illustrate the concept. Bob Carr and Jim Adams remain skeptical but open to Riggs' model. "I have yet to see and measure the stones myself," Adams added.

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