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Archaeologists once puzzled over strange small pebbles found deep inside the Carolina Bays — ancient oval-shaped depressions scattered across the southeastern U.S. At first, they thought these stones were just debris... until they realized they were gizzard stones — swallowed by ducks and turkeys thousands of years ago. These wetlands were prime hunting grounds for early humans, and those tiny stones revealed a world of migration, survival, and mystery hidden beneath the mud. 🎙️ Watch our latest episode → https://youtu.be/T91_7PIKtmE #AncientMystery #CarolinaBays #PodcastClips #Archaeology #EarthMystery #HistoryShorts #podcast
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That was like a perfect place to go hunting was in a low swampy area and they would actually camp out on these rims. They would go hunting into these Carolina bays. They found the gizzard stones from like ducks and turkeys and things like that. They were confused because they kept finding these little pebbles in there. And somebody was like, "Wait, wait, wait. Those are they're actually gizzard stones. They're actually from inside waterfell. This is part of the processing of of waterfall.