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The Aucilla River is an 89 mile long rive, part of which passes through the town of Mandalay, FL. The river meets the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachee Bay. It contains many human artifacts and animal bones from the late Pleistocene and early Holocene eras, causing it to be a popular area for archeologists to explore.
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