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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessi Halligan.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aucilla River drainage of Northwestern Florida contains extensive archaeological evidence dating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene (ca. 14,560-8,000 cal B.P). In the river channels, hundreds of lithic tools have been recovered from surface contexts, and some mid-channel sinkholes contain material culture within intact,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Hoover.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In July of 2024, our team collected nearly 20 km of 600 MHz GPR data on the earliest large-scale monumental site in the region: Los Morteros, a Late Preceramic monumental site located in the Lower Chao Valley on the Northwest coast of Peru. Analysis and interpretation suggest the presence of a drape of aeolian sand over anthropogenic structures, including...