Overview
- The richest multidisciplinary work in eastern North America, combining Paleoindian archaeology, event stratigraphy, vertebrate paleontology, rich pollen records, and extraordinary macrobotanical data, both water-deposited and from the stomach contents of American Mastodon
- Data provide fundamental insights into two urgent issues: "the Peopling of the Americas" and "The Extinction of the Megafauna"
- Faunal and floristic data sets will be of great interest to all ecologists and environmentalists
- Excellent color photo section expresses the unique setting and adventure of this project, extensively supported by National Geographic Society
Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 26)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Late pleistocene evidence
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Early holocene evidence
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"A monument of interdisciplinary scientific analysis and reporting, and absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the early human settlement of the Americas." David G. Anderson, Dept. of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
"An excellent array of interdisciplinary studies conducted at an important site offering new and exciting clues on the origins of the First Americans" Dr. Stanford, Dept. of Archeology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
"This impressive volume represents the culmination of over 20 years of underwater archaeological and paleontological research on one of the most significant Paleoindian sites in the southeastern United States. … The many important contributions in this volume have made tremendous progress toward that goal. … I highly recommend First Floridians and Last Mastodons to anyone interested in Paleoindian archaeology, late Pleistocene paleontology, or Quaternary paleoecology and climate change. It is certain to become an important reference work in those fields." (Gary S. Morgan, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Vol. 15, 2008)
"This collective, edited work represents the culmination of 20 years of research, collection, and management of one of the most productive, underwater paleontological sites in the southeastern US … . The book is a fine addition to the library for those of us concerned with Pleistocene and Holocene aspects of the fossil record. … Certainly the book will appeal to academics, scientists and researchers in the fields of geology, paleontology, archaeology, biology, and ecology." (D. M. Jarzen, AASP Newsletter, Vol. 41 (3), 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River
Editors: S. David Webb
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4694-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4325-3Published: 18 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0458-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4694-0Published: 11 October 2006
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 588
Topics: Paleontology, Biogeosciences, Anthropology, Archaeology