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PARSONS ISLAND, Md. - With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach.
What started as a routine survey for a new apartment complex in Sao Luis, Brazil, turned into a jaw-dropping archaeological extravaganza, revealing 43 human skeletons and over 100,000 artifacts!
Traces of algae on teeth found at archaeological sites suggest that seaweeds may have been a staple part of European diets from the Mesolithic until the Middle Ages