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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 1

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Early Artifacts of Qi Marco in Florida

Kimarcosite is remarkably rich. It combines the special island environment with preserved objects from the bog pond like wendover pond. The artifacts cannot be carbon dated, because when they were excavated in the 18 nineties, that technology didn't exist yet. But it's significant that in all the material that's been found on qi marco, there is no sign at all of european contact. So that makes it overwhelmingly likely that it dates entirely to before 15 hundred. And rough guesses are that it probably wasa e town in the first millennium, a d up to maybe about 15 thousand years ago.

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