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Unveiling the past, Dr. Alongo suggests that the pristine images of Florida's early civilizations have been obscured by layers of historical violence—particularly, the destroying of these structures by settlers who, deeming them as mere "trash piles," irreparably altered the landscape. By the time English settlers arrived in 1763, centuries of indigenous habitation were erased, and the potential grandeur of Florida's pyramidal heritage remained entombed beneath a thick blanket of soil and vegetation.