New directions in the search for the first Floridians /

New directions in the search for the first Floridians /

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Imprint:	Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	ix, 359 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series Ripley P. Bullen series.
Subject:	Paleo-Indians -- Florida. Indians of North America -- Florida -- Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Florida. Excavations (Archaeology) Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Paleo-Indians. Florida.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11900428

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Other authors / contributors:	Thulman, David Kelley, editor. Garrison, Ervan G., editor.
ISBN:	9781683400738 1683400739
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians grew out of the First Floridians conference held in October 2015 in Monticello, Florida, which focused on the state and future of Paleoindian studies in Florida but also reached temporally into the Early Archaic period and beyond Florida into the greater Southeast and as far west as Texas. This volume is organized into three sections: The past, present, and future of the archaeology of early Floridians, early Floridian studies in a broader context, and technological advances in the study of early Floridians.
Other form:	Electronic version: New directions in the search for the first Floridians. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2019 9781683400806

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Summary:	Presenting the most current research and thinking on prehistoric archaeology in the Southeast, this volume reexamines some of Florida's most important Paleoindian sites and discusses emerging technologies and methods that are necessary knowledge for archaeologists working in the region today.<br> <br> Using new analytical methods, contributors explore fresh perspectives on sites including Old Vero, Guest Mammoth, Page-Ladson, and Ray Hole Spring. They discuss the role of hydrology?rivers, springs, and coastal plain drainages?in the history of Florida's earliest inhabitants. They address both the research challenges and the unique preservation capacity of the state's many underwater sites, suggesting solutions for analyzing corroded lithic artifacts and submerged midden deposits.<br> <br> Looking towards future research, archaeologists discuss strategies for finding additional pre-Clovis and Clovis-era sites offshore on the southeastern continental shelf. The search is important, these essays show, because Florida's prehistoric sites hold critical data for the debate over the nature and timing of the first human colonization of the Western Hemisphere.<br> <br> A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Physical Description:	ix, 359 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781683400738 1683400739