First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Webb, S. David. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Topics in Geobiology, 26
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4694-0
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505 0 |a Geology -- Underwater Excavation Methods -- Geography and Geomorphology of the Aucilla River Region -- Stratigraphy and Sedimentation -- Carbon Dates -- Pleistocene–Early Holocene Climate Change: Chronostratigraphy and Geoclimate of the Southeast US -- Paleobotany -- Setting the Stage: Fossil Pollen, Stomata, and Charcoal -- Paleoenvironmental Aspects of the Macrophytic Plant Assemblage from Page-Ladson -- Late pleistocene evidence -- Vertebrate Paleontology -- Non-marine Mollusca -- Mastodons (Mammut americanum) Diet Foraging Patterns Based on Analysis of Dung Deposits -- Mastodon Tusk Recovery -- Five Years in the Life of an Aucilla River Mastodon -- The Biogeochemistry of the Aucilla River Fauna -- Paleoindian Archaeology -- Early holocene evidence -- Terrestrial Soil or Submerged Sediment: The Early Archaic at Page-Ladson -- Early Holocene Vertebrate Paleontology -- Biogenic Silica as an Environmental Indicator -- Early Archaic Archaeology -- Hearths -- Conclusions -- Paleoindian Land Use -- Conclusions. 
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