Terminal Pleistocene Climate Change and Shifting Paleoindian Landscapes in North Florida

Summary

Much of the Southeastern United States suffers from poor organic preservation. Direct dating of archaeological components is often impossible, and intact paleoenvironmental sequences are very rare, especially for the terminal Pleistocene. Inundated terrestrial sites in the Aucilla River of northwestern Florida can overcome both of these difficulties, with archaeological materials buried within directly-dateable intact strata containing well-preserved paleobotanical and faunal remains. Strata from different inundated sites can be correlated regionally by soil development and radiocarbon dates. These sites can provide high-resolution and in-depth multi-proxy records for environmental changes occurring during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene (ca. 18,000-7500 cal BP). Because these paleoenvironmental data are also associated with cultural materials, these records can also shed light on Paleoindian and Early Archaic lifeways.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21088