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Mound Key and the Calusa
Estero Bay, Florida
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The Calusa built an empire on fish rather than farming, unusual anywhere, with an island capital raised entirely from shell, canals cut through it, and a king who took tribute from most of south Florida. Archaeologists found a walled watercourt here big enough to hold live fish by the tonne. They fought off the Spanish for two centuries and were destroyed by disease and slave raids instead.
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