Largest 17th Century Bead Repository Found In Coastal Georgia
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 22:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Nearly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina de Guale Mission that is now part of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. The bead repository is the largest from Spanish Florida and enlightens archaeologists about past trade routes and social structure of the people that lived in the mission.
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