Late Pleistocene Deposits in Lake George, Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2006, a Suwannee Paleoindian site was reported by local collectors in Lake George, Florida’s second largest lake. Although destroyed, the site changed our understanding of Paleoindian distributions in the state. Since then, the Archaeological Research Cooperative has conducted surface and sub-bottom surveys of the lake looking for other early landforms and sites, funded by the state of Florida. In 2019, we found several surfaces in cores with preserved fauna and flora, dating to ~14,000, 18,000, and 20,000 cal years BP. The youngest dates are essentially contemporaneous with the pre-Clovis dates at Page-Ladson. These findings were unexpected and reveal a more complex paleoenvironmental and potential occupation history for the lake.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36908.0