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"For decades, archaeologists have debated when people first arrived in the Americas," said Holliday, a professor in the Univeristy of Arizona School or Anthropology and Department of Geosciences, "Few archaeologists see reliable evidence for sites older than about 16,000 years. Some think the arrival was later, no more than 13,000 years ago by makers of artifacts called Clovis points. The White Sands tracks provide a much earlier date. There are multiple layers of well-dated human tracks in streambeds where water flowed into an ancient lake. This was 10,000 years before Clovis people." ...
Here is the link for more about that.
Earliest Evidence of Human Activity Found in the Americas | University of Arizona News
Every Floridian, full or part-time, should know about the world-famous "Vero Man" site and James Kennedy's history making find of a 13,000 year-old mammoth bone bearing a human carving.
Wikipedia describes Vero Man this way: Vero man refers to a set of fossilized human bones found near Vero (now Vero Beach), Florida, in 1915 and 1916. The human bones were found in association with those of Pleistocene animals. The question of whether humans were present in Florida (or anywhere in the Americas) during the Pleistocene was controversial at the time, and most archaeologists did not accept that the Vero fossils were that old. Recent studies show that the Vero human bones are from the Pleistocene and are the largest collection of human remains from the Pleistocene found in North America.
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Experts believed that Hird’s entire collection had been sold or gifted prior to his death in 1973, but these exquisite coins were recently rediscovered by his family. The sale of these "forgotten" coins provides collectors with a rare opportunity to acquire extraordinary pieces, many of which are the only known example in private hands...
Included are a 17th century Spur Ryal, a 16th century coin minted to honor Catherine of Aragon, and a 16th century Armada Rose Noble that features Elizabeth I on the deck of a Tudor Galleon while holding the royal orb and scepter. It is dubbed the "Armada Rose Noble" due to being struck at the time of the Spanish Armada and bearing the iconic Tudor rose.Rediscovered Gold Coins from Hird Collection in Spink Auction | CoinNews
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Here is a website that can help you grade your coins. It has great photos of coins in various grades so you can match your coins with the coins shown in the photo.
Perhaps easier, if you can take quality photos of your coin, is sending the photos in to the appropriate forum on coincommunity.com. They will give you their opinions. And they have some real experts.
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We now have tropical storm Teresa and hurricane Sam.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
It looks like Sam will stay out in the Atlantic a good distance from Florida.
Teresa won't affect us.
It looks like we should have a two to three foot surf for a couple of days and then maybe one day of three to four foot surf.
Happy hunting,
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