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They had contacts with others as far away as what later became the Southeast and Midwest United States — evidence written in the artifacts found with the burials.
Marine shells from distant coasts.
Materials that had no local origin.
A cemetery organized in ways that suggest social complexity and established belief systems.
“They are more advanced than we would have expected,” Ricklis said.
“This is of great importance.”
It rewrote the history not just of the region but, in the words of the archaeologists involved, of the nation.
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