First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River (eBook)

During four decades of service to the Florida Museum of Natural History, David Webb led paleontological excavations at two dozen major sites within the Late Cenozoic Era. Some of these, including the Aucilla River Prehistory Project, involved unique SCUBA excavations yielding extraordinary wet-site preservation. Professor Webb served as President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Guggenheim Fellow in western Europe, Visiting Professor of Geology at Yale University, and Distinguished Visiting Curator at the Field Museum in Chicago. He has conducted field work in Central and South America, Africa, China and Australia. He has edited or authored six books, and written some 200 scientific papers. Outstanding specialists from other leading universities, U of Colorado, Columbia, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Santa Cruz, Stanford, and Texas have lent their expertise to this extraordinary project.

Foreword By Robin C. Brown Preface By S. David Webb Chapter 1 Underwater Excavation Methods By Joseph M. Latvis and Irvy R. Quitmyer SECTION A: GEOLOGY Chapter 2 Geography and Geomorphology of the Aucilla River Region By Joseph F. Donoghue Chapter 3 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation By David C. Kendrick Chapter 4 Carbon Dates By S. David Webb and James S. Dunbar Chapter 5 Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Change: Chronostratigraphy and Geoclimate of the Southeast United States By James S. Dunbar SECTION B: PALEOBOTANY Chapter 6 Setting the Stage: fossil Pollen, Stomata and Charcoal By Barbara C. S. Hansen Chapter 7 Paleoenvironmental Aspects of the Macrophytic Plant Assemblage By Lee A. Newsom SECTION C: LATE PLEISTOCENE EVIDENCE Chapter 8 Vertebrate Paleontology By S. David Webb and Erika Simons Chapter 9 Non-marine Mollusca By Kurt Auffenberg, Irvy R. Quitmyer, James D. Williams and Douglas S. Jones Chapter 10 Mastodon (Mammut americanum) Diet and Foraging Patterns Based on Paleofecal Material By Lee A. Newsom and Mathew C. Mihlbachler Chapter 11 Mastodon Tusk Recovery By S. David Webb Chapter 12 Five Years in the Life of an Aucilla Mastodon By Daniel C. Fisher and David L. Fox Chapter 13 The Biogeochemistry of the Aucilla River Fauna By Kathryn A. Hoppe and Paul L. Koch Chapter 14 Paleoindian Archaeology By James S. Dunbar SECTION D: EARLY HOLOCENE EVIDENCE Chapter 15 Terrestrial Soil or Submerged Sediment?: The early Archaic at Page-Ladson By Sylvia Scudder Chapter 16 Early Holocene Vertebrate Paleontology By Tanya Peres and Erika Simons Chapter 17Biogenic Silica as an Environmental Indicator By Russ McCarty and Larry Schwandes Chapter 18 Early Archaic Archaeology By Brinnen C. Carter and James S. Dunbar Chapter 19 Bolen Hearths By Mark P. Muniz and C. Andrew Hemmings SECTION E: CONCLUSIONS Chapter 20 Paleoindian Land Use By James S. Dunbar Chapter 21 Conclusions By S. David Webb