For over a century, Florida has produced evidence of the earliest people in the New World. In contrast to its wet, lush modern environment, during the Late Pleistocene, Florida was a drier and less hospitable place and twice its present size due to lower sea levels. In this talk, I’ll discuss several underwater prehistoric projects that have uncovered human interactions with extinct animals, large cemeteries, and rare ivory, bone, and wooden artifacts. The latest technological innovations that promise to make underwater prehistoric archaeology more productive will also be reviewed.
About the presenter: David K. Thulman is an assistant professorial lecturer in the anthropology department at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and president of the Archaeological Research Cooperative, Inc. His research interests include using geometric morphometrics and Bayesian radiocarbon Chronologies to explore Paleoindian and Early Archaic social organization.
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