Preserving Florida’s Heritage:

Huge mounds of shell still attest to the presence of pre-European villages and towns. On the richer soils in the Florida panhandle, farming people grew corn, beans and squash, and settled villages. About 1,000 years ago, the well-known Mississippian chiefdoms began to construct large pyramids of earth, some more than 40 feet high, organized in ... ................
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