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"In adapting to their wetland world, the people of South Florida achieved a level of cultural sophistication and social organization much earlier than previously believed," said Mr. Carr, executive director of Archaeological and Historical Conservancy in Davie, Fla.

And the dates place the Ortona people squarely within an American Indian tradition, that of the Hopewell people, whose center was far to the north, in the Ohio River Valley.