First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River

Over the last 20 years the Aucilla River Prehistory Project has been one of the most f— cinating stories unfolding in Florida. This project, uncovering the remains of plants and animals from the end of the last Ice Age and the beginning of Florida’s human oc— pation, is answering questions important to the entire western hemisphere. Questions such as when did people first arrive in the Americas? Were these newcomer scavengers or skillful hunters? Could they have contributed to the extinctio...