Updates on the Geoarchaeology of the Latest Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene at the Page-Ladson site, Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Page-Ladson site in the Aucilla River basin in northwestern Florida, a drowned terrestrial locality, contains strata with well-preserved organic materials in archaeological contexts, allowing us to create absolute cultural chronologies, recreate paleoenvironments, and discuss human subsistence strategies. For the past several years, we have been investigating a cultural component in a soil that has ages spanning the Younger Dryas and earliest Holocene and is located 4–6 m below the modern water line, extending previous research the site. The soil contains multiple diagnostic artifact styles, indicating repeated reuse of this key landscape localities, and provides some of the few radiocarbon ages in the entire US Southeast for several diagnostic styles. In 2022, a Suwannee point was found in association with numerous wood fragments, allowing the first absolute ages to be obtained for this type. This paper summarized our recent investigations at the site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39283.0