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Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida's Gulf Coast

  • Written by Jayur Mehta, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University
Native American burial mound at Lake Jackson Mounds State Park, north of Tallahassee, Fla.Ebaybe/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in...

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