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There’s a Paleo-Indian site at Wakulla Springs, a Calusa site on Mound Key, a project in Cuba and even a small canvas bag of fossils that a local beachcomber brought in.

Paleo-Indians navigated chunks of melting ice left by retreating glaciers when they hunted woolly mammoths and caribou in the area 12,000 years ago.

He said the Paleo-Indian people were hunter-gatherers and “more than likely semi-nomadic,” trailing water and game across the landscape and through the seasons.

Native Americans first came to the site during the Paleo-Indian period to hunt Ice Age mammals, the Macon newspaper reported.

The site also provides evidence that the Paleo-Indians consumed other animals, including ground squirrels and hares.