A 400-year-old Native American pot lay buried beneath a Spanish mission in Florida until archaeologists found it completely intact

• University of Florida students have unearthed a nearly 400-year-old clay pot at the site of a 17th-century Spanish mission in Gainesville, and remarkably, it survived completely intact.
• The find was made during a hands-on field course led by archaeologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, at a site known as Mission San Fr