The latter suggest the site might be a place of human burial, and if and when archaeologists manage to gain access to the entirety of the site, the question might be resolved. Until then, the function of this site is unknown, but clearly it is much more significant than just a home. It appears to have been some kind of sacret site, less likey to have been a council house. However, any further investigation to discover the site's purpose was ended by the Mayor and developer. Archaeologist Bob Carr wonders why.
Artifacts show that the rest of the town continued, but only on the north side of the river.
That may have prompted the Tekesta to alter their religious practices, deactivating the Miami Circle site to find only occasional use as a cermonial or possibly a burial location. Whatever its original purpose, the site in the nineteenth century became the location of a European trading post, and was finally overlaid by a century of commercial development in recent times. In any case, this is certainly the only archaeologically documented Tekesta structure. Much of the original capitol town of Tekesta is undoubtedly lost to us forever beneath the City's streets. So many puzzles remain.