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

First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River edited by S. David Webb.

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)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Topics in Geobiology, 26
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Paleontology .
Geobiology.
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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