archaeologist, James Ford, that in 1935 he had excavated numerous bronze and iron, swords, axes, hammers, chisels and daggers from the south bank of the Altamaha River in Georgia during a survey of Santo Domingo State Park. Ford attributed these artifacts to late 16th Spanish explorers. Ford was only 24 at the time and didn't even have an undergraduate degree in archaeology. No bronze weapons had been made in the Iberian Peninsula, where Spain was later located, after about 5-600 BC.