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Northwest Florida might have been home to America’s first domesticated cats
A recently published archaeological study is shedding new light on the role of domesticated cats in the early days of Colonial America. The remains of the cats at the heart of the article were found on a 1559 shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, dubbed Emmanuel Point II.
Domesticated cats were commonplace on ships, as they were seen as good luck and curbed rodent populations.
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