During tough times, ancient ‘tourists’ sought solace in Florida oyster feasts – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-tourists-sought-solace-in-florida-oyster-feasts/
More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island on Florida’s Gulf Coast to bond over oysters, likely as a means of coping with climate change and social upheaval. Archaeologists’ analysis of present-day Roberts Island, about 50 miles north of
Researchers hand-excavated, screened and analyzed animal remains from Crystal River