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The Tools of Early Man

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Kathleen Haughney
Kathleen Haughney

The discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a Florida river shows that humans settled the southeastern United States as much as 1,500 years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a research team led by a Florida State University professor.

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THE TOOLS OF EARLY MAN AUCILLA RIVER, FL FSU RESEARCH
45 minutes from Tallahassee is the Aucilla River - now the oldest known site of human life in the southeastern United States.
FSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessi Halligan and researchers from Texas A& M and University of Michigan discovered evidence of human activity dating back 14, 550 years
Divers excavated the site 30 feet below the surface of the Aucilla.
Stone tools and mastodon bones were recovered from the site. One mastodon tusk bared cut marks from a tool in a layer more than 14, 000 years old.
Prior to this discovery, scientists believed a group of people called Clovis settled the area about 13, 200 years ago.
Using the latest radiocarbon techniques, researchers dated the artifacts origins to about 14, 550 years ago.
" This is a big deal. There were people here. So how did they live? This has opened up a whole new line of inquiry for us as scientists as we try to understand the settlement of the Americas. " F i n d m o r e F S U R e s e a r c h s t o r i e s a t :F i n d m o r e F S U R e s e a r c h s t o r i e s a t : @ F S U R e s e a r c h o n T w i t t e r & / F l o r i d a S t a t e o n F a c e b o o k

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The Tools of Early Man

  • 1. THE TOOLS OF EARLY MAN AUCILLA RIVER, FL FSU RESEARCH
  • 2. 45 minutes from Tallahassee is the Aucilla River - now the oldest known site of human life in the southeastern United States.
  • 3. FSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessi Halligan and researchers from Texas A& M and University of Michigan discovered evidence of human activity dating back 14, 550 years
  • 4. Divers excavated the site 30 feet below the surface of the Aucilla.
  • 5. Stone tools and mastodon bones were recovered from the site. One mastodon tusk bared cut marks from a tool in a layer more than 14, 000 years old.
  • 6. Prior to this discovery, scientists believed a group of people called Clovis settled the area about 13, 200 years ago.
  • 7. Using the latest radiocarbon techniques, researchers dated the artifacts origins to about 14, 550 years ago.
  • 8. " This is a big deal. There were people here. So how did they live? This has opened up a whole new line of inquiry for us as scientists as we try to understand the settlement of the Americas. " F i n d m o r e F S U R e s e a r c h s t o r i e s a t :F i n d m o r e F S U R e s e a r c h s t o r i e s a t : @ F S U R e s e a r c h o n T w i t t e r & / F l o r i d a S t a t e o n F a c e b o o k