07-24-2016, 06:02 AM
Some interesting finds out of a sink hole in Florida. It would appear even back when the snow bird life style was alive and well !
https://www.yahoo.com/news/early-snowbir...html?nhp=1
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2...00375.full
https://www.yahoo.com/news/early-snowbir...html?nhp=1
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2...00375.full
Quote:Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that ~14,550 calendar years ago (cal yr B.P.), people butchered or scavenged a mastodon next to a pond in a bedrock sinkhole within the Aucilla River. This occupation surface was buried by ~4 m of sediment during the late Pleistocene marine transgression, which also left the site submerged. Sporormiella and other proxy evidence from the sediments indicate that hunter-gatherers along the Gulf Coastal Plain coexisted with and utilized megafauna for ~2000 years before these animals became extinct at ~12,600 cal yr B.P. Page-Ladson expands our understanding of the earliest colonizers of the Americas and human-megafauna interaction before extinction.
