First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla RiverS. David Webb Springer Science & Business Media, 11 okt 2006 - 588 pagina's Over the last 20 years the Aucilla River Prehistory Project has been one of the most f- cinating stories unfolding in Florida. This project, uncovering the remains of plants and animals from the end of the last Ice Age and the beginning of Florida’s human oc- pation, is answering questions important to the entire western hemisphere. Questions such as when did people first arrive in the Americas? Were these newcomer scavengers or skillful hunters? Could they have contributed to the extinction of the great Ice Age beasts – animals such as elephants – that were creatures native to Florida for the pre- ous million or so years? And how did these first Florida people survive 12,000 years ago at a time when sea level was so low that this peninsula was double its present size, sprawling hugely into the warm waters of the Caribbean? Much of Florida at that time was almost desert. Fresh water – for both man and beast – was hard to find. The lower reaches of today’s Aucilla River are spellbinding. Under canopies of oak and cypress, the tea-colored water moves slowly toward the Gulf of Mexico, sometimes sinking out of sight into ancient drowned caves and then welling up again a few feet or a few miles downstream. Along the river bottom, the remains of long extinct animals and Florida’s earliest people lie entombed in orderly layers of peat, sand, and clay. |
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GEOLOGY | 29 |
Carbon Dates | 83 |
Chronostratigraphy | 103 |
PALEOBOTANY | 156 |
Paleoenvironmental Aspects of the Macrophytic | 180 |
LATE PLEISTOCENE EVIDENCE | 212 |
Nonmarine Mollusca | 247 |
Mastodon Tusk Recovery 333 | 335 |
The Biogeochemistry of the Aucilla River Fauna 379 | 378 |
Paleoindian Archaeology | 403 |
EARLY HOLOCENE EVIDENCE | 436 |
Early Holocene Vertebrate Paleontology | 461 |
Early Archaic Archaeology 493 | 492 |
Hearths | 517 |
Conclusions | 545 |
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analysis aquatic Archaeological ARPP artifacts Aucilla River Aucilla River Prehistory Bolen Level 2A Bolen surface bone carbon Clovis coastal cypress dates dentin deposits digesta dive divers Dunbar dung samples Early Archaic early Holocene elephants environment environmental evidence excavation extinct fauna Florida Museum forest fossil fragments freshwater Gainesville Geological Gulf of Mexico habitats Heinrich events herbivores Holocene Hoppe horizon identified increment thickness indicate isotope karst Koch late glacial late Pleistocene layers limestone mammals mammoths Mammut Mammuthus mastodon megafauna meltwater mollusk North America North Florida Older Dryas oxygen isotope Page-Ladson Paleoindian peat phytoliths plant pollen proboscideans Quaternary radiocarbon range record recovered region represent Research River Prehistory Project sand seasonal second-order increment sediments seeds silt sinkhole soil Southeastern species specimens stratigraphic Suwannee taxa Taxodium terrestrial Test F tusk underwater Unit vegetation vertebrate Wacissa River water table Webb wetland wood woody Younger Dryas Zone