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Title First Floridians and last mastodons : the Page-Ladson site in the Aucilla River / S. David Webb
Published Dordrecht ; [Great Britain] : Springer, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 588 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Topics in geobiology ; v. 26
Topics in geobiology ; v. 26.
Contents Underwater excavation methods / Joseph M. Latvis and Irvy C. Quitmyer -- Geography and geomorphology of the Aucilla River region / Joseph F. Donoghue -- Stratigraphy and sedimentation / David C. Kendrick -- Carbon dates / S. David Webb and James S. Dunbar -- Pleistocene-early Holocene climate change : chronostratigraphy and geoclimate of the Southeast US / James S. Dunbar -- Setting the stage : fossil pollen, stomata, and charcoal / Barbara C.S. Hansen -- Paleoenvironmental aspects of the macrophytic plant assemblage from Page-Ladson / Lee A. Newsom -- Vertebrate paleontology / S. David Webb and Erika Simons -- Non-marine Mollusca -- Kurt Auffenberg, Irvy R. Quitmyer, James D. Williams and Douglas S. Jones -- Mastodons (Mammut americanum) diet foraging patterns based on analysis of dung deposits / Lee A. Newsom and Mathew C. Mihlbachler -- Mastodon tusk recovery / S. David Webb -- Five years in the life of an Aucilla River mastodon / Daniel C. Fisher and David L. Fox -- The biogeochemistry of the Aucilla River fauna / Kathryn A. Hoppe and Paul L. Koch -- Paleoindian archaeology / James S. Dunbar -- Terrestrial soil or submerged sediment : the early archaic at Page-Ladson / Sylvia Scudder -- Early Holocene vertebrate paleontology / Tanya Peres and Erika Simons -- Biogenic silica as an environmental indicator / Russ McCarty and Larry Schwandes -- Early archaic archaeology / Brinnen C. Carter and James S. Dunbar -- Hearths / Mark P. Muniz and C. Andrew Hemmings -- Paleoindian land use / James S. Dunbar
Summary Presents the multidisciplinary results of underwater excavation in north Florida which yields the results of interactions between early Paleoindians and late Pleistocene megafauna. This book provides fundamental insights into two urgent issues: "The Peopling of the Americas"; and "The Extinction of the Megafauna."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Springer e-books
Subject Paleobiogeography -- Florida
Mastodons -- Florida
NATURE -- Fossils.
NATURE -- Animals -- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
Mastodons -- Florida.
Paleobiogeography -- Florida.
Environnement.
Sciences de la terre.
Mastodons
Paleobiogeography
Florida
Form Electronic book
Author Webb, S. David (Sawney David), 1936-
ISBN 9781402046940
1402046944
9781402043253
1402043252
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9786610634651