New directions in the search for the first Floridians /

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...

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Other Authors: Thulman, David Kelley (Editor), Garrison, Ervan G. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2019]
Series:Ripley P. Bullen series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David K. Thulman and Ervan G. Garrison
  • Part I. The past, present, and future of the archaeology of early Floridians. Paleoindian archaeology in Florida in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / David K. Thulman ; Underwater archaeology of paleolandscapes in the Big Bend : ten years of research on the offshore, 1986-1992 and 1998-2002 / Michael K. Faught ; What does the future hold for first Floridian studies? / Jessi Halligan ; The Old Vero Site and the current Paleoindian landscape of Florida / C. Andrew Hemmings ; Hunting an underwater mammoth : a re-evaluation of the first submerged prehistoric site excavated in the Americas / Morgan F. Smith
  • Part II. Early Floridian studies in a broader context. Early Paleoindian potentials on the continental shelf in the southeastern United States / James S. Dunbar and David K. Thulman ; The predicate form : using artifact shapes to reconstruct social interaction during the late Paleoindian and early archaic periods in the Southeast / David K. Thulman ; Illicit digging, illicit collecting, and archaeology : a perspective from Florida / Mary Glowacki and James S. Dunbar ; Paleoindian zooarchaeology in Florida / Rochelle A. Marrinan and Tanya M. Peres
  • Part III. Technical advances in the study of early Floridians. Geoarchaeology underwater and its challenges : an example from Florida / Ervan G. Garrison and Jessica Cook Hale ; Postdepositional corrosions in lithic items recovered from submerged marine contexts / Jessica Cook Hale ; Emerging remote sensing methods in underwater archaeology / Timothy S. de Smet and Morgan F. Smith ; Paleoindian settlement in the southeastern United States : the role of large databases / David G. Anderson, David Echeverry, D. Shane Miller, Andrew A. White, Stephen J. Yerka, Eric Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Christopher R. Moore, Kelsey Noack Myers, Joshua J. Wells, Thaddeus G. Bissett, and Ashley M. Smallwood ; The state of Florida Paleoindian studies : early Paleoindian potentials on the continental shelf / Ervan G. Garrison and David K. Thulman.