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