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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 22, 2014, 03:04:48 pm

Title: Oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America? Location of Fort Caroline may be in Georgia
Post by: mystery-ak on February 22, 2014, 03:04:48 pm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140221111218.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ffossils_ruins+%28Fossils+%26+Ruins+News+--+ScienceDaily%29 (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140221111218.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ffossils_ruins+%28Fossils+%26+Ruins+News+--+ScienceDaily%29)

Oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America? Location of Fort Caroline may be in Georgia

Date:
February 21, 2014

Source:
Florida State University

Summary:
In an announcement likely to rewrite the book on early colonization of the New World, two researchers have proposed a location for the oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America. They believe that the legendary Fort Caroline, a long-sought fort built by the French in 1564, is located near the mouth of the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia.

(http://images.sciencedaily.com/2014/02/140221111218-large.jpg)
The Fort Caroline site has not yet been excavated by archeologists.


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Title: Re: Oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America? Location of Fort Caroline may be in Georgia
Post by: Oceander on February 23, 2014, 04:53:20 am

pretty cool!  the article is worth the read.

Title: Re: Oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America? Location of Fort Caroline may be in Georgia
Post by: Bigun on February 23, 2014, 04:58:01 am

Marker

Title: Re: Oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America? Location of Fort Caroline may be in Georgia
Post by: SouthTexas on February 23, 2014, 03:30:19 pm

Neat!

We had a French fort near year.  The Karankawas had them for lunch.