An island grave site hints at far-flung ties among ancient Americans
Great Lakes and southeastern hunter-gatherers may have had direct contact 4,000 years ago
![St. Catherines Island](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/091119_bb_shell-ring_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Excavations on St. Catherines Island (shown), off Georgia’s coast, point to direct exchanges between hunter-gatherers living there around 4,000 years ago and others from the Great Lakes, more than 1,500 kilometers away.
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