![]() ![]() "We have found sites (on the Cape) with projectile points that are from 5,000, 6,000 years ago in direct association with pottery - which can't happen, because of the age-range difference from the pottery period and the spear point," Penders said. Penders said the origins of the two ancient spear points discovered at the Penny Site remain a mystery. Artifacts are displayed at the Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science in Cocoa. Scientists discovered the world's oldest brain tissue, which yielded DNA samples, while excavating 168 Windover skeletons that were preserved in peat. In 1982, a backhoe operator stumbled upon the Windover prehistoric burial ground while building a housing subdivision. Radiocarbon dating of these bones went back as early as 8,120 years, thousands of years before the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built. Air Force Space Launch Delta 45 have collaborated on archaeological research across the 16,000-acre, restricted-access Cape Canaveral SFS during spring semesters.īrevard County's most famous - and far older - archaeological site lies in Titusville. Since 2017, UCF anthropology students and U.S. They were shucking out the good meat in the middle of the shell, and then tossing them onto the side," Groff said. "We've found lots of these shell clusters that were in these very centralized kind of pockets, that almost look like (they) would have been maybe an eating area," said Amanda Groff, UCF senior lecturer of anthropology, standing at the dig site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Swarming across an archaeological pit, University of Central Florida students wielding hand tools are carefully unearthing a long-hidden Ais Native American gathering place near the Banana River - where prehistoric stone spear points date back to 6,000 years old. Unlock unlimited digital access to Click here and subscribe today.
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