Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere?

Jessi Halligan

Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere?

Year: 2018

Summary

Many projectile points of late Paleoindian and early Archaic styles have been recovered from underwater contexts in the Aucilla Basin. A large percentage of these are unprovenienced surface finds, but these artifacts have also been found in association with soils currently submerged more than 4 meters underwater. Dates from these soils span the Younger Dryas at Page-Ladson and Sloth Hole, while other sites have proven complex to date but provide excellent environmental information. Paleoenvironmental analyses of these soils provide a useful baseline for the end of the Pleistocene and the early Holocene in this area. Material culture can then be analyzed in relation to this baseline in order to further our understanding of how people were living during this dynamic period.

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Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere?. Jessi Halligan. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441858)