Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee Presentation with Dr. James M. Adovasio
Dr. James M. Adovasio; Director of Mercyhurst Archeological Institute; addresses the Old Vero Ice Age Site Committee banquet to celebrate the first dig of the project, to learn when people first inhabited Florida and what were their lives like.
Old Vero Ice Age (OVIASC 2017)
Vero Beach's Hidden Treasures - Ice Age Archaeology Site
Vero Beach Historical Series, Episode 5 | Old Vero Man Archaeology Dig
*The following videos are from an ongoing Historical Education Documentary Series provided by the Indian River County Historical Society.* Hear results of 4 years of Excavation at the Old Vero Site An Ice Age Mystery Revealed.
Old Vero Man
South Brevard Historical Society September 2018 program presented by Carol Robertson,retired school teacher and chairperson of Education Outreach for OVIASC (Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee)
Vero Beach Ice Age site
Researchers in Vero Beach say they could be close to drastically changing what we know about how long-ago humans migrated to North America.
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Away from 'Jurassic World', Vero Beach site provides buried history of its own
Though it's closed off to only professional paleontologists and researchers now, over the years the old Vero man ice age site has proved to be a hotspot for fossil collectors like Mazza.
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Vero Beach Historical Series, Episode 5: Old Vero Man Archaeology Dig
*The following videos are from an ongoing Historical Education Documentary Series provided by the Indian River County Historical Society.* Hear results of 4 years of Excavation at the Old Vero Site An Ice Age Mystery Revealed.
VERO VINO'S GROWING UP IN VERO WITH JIM WILSON
Vero Beach's Jim Wilson shares some fond memories of the downtown area.
Old Vero Man Archaeological Dig
In January, archaeologists started excavating the site near where the Old Vero Man bones were found nearly a century ago.
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Vero man refers to a set of fossilized human bones found near Vero (now Vero Beach), Florida, in 1915 and 1916. The human bones were found in association with those of Pleistocene animals. The question of whether humans were present in Florida (or anywhere in the Americas) during the Pleistocene was controversial at the time, and most archaeologists did not accept that the Vero fossils were that old. Recent studies show that the Vero human bones are from the Pleistocene and are the largest collection of human remains from the Pleistocene found in North America.
Starting in late 1913 vertebrate fossils were uncovered during the construction of a drainage canal from the Indian River between Vero and Gifford. Samples of the fossils were sent by Isaac M. Weills and Frank Ayers to the state geologist of Florida, E. H. Sellards, who recognized the finds as Pleistocene animals. In 1915, 26 fossilized human bones and fragments were found in the banks of the canal. The following year Sellards conducted his own excavations at the site, recovering an engraved mammoth tusk and a bird bone with marks possibly made by humans. In a nearby location he recovered human bones from the stratum that contained Pleistocene fossils. Sellards also found chert flakes and bone tools, including what appears to be a broken stemmed Archaic projectile point, and near the surface found a few ceramic sherds.
Sellards first published his findings in 1916. He invited other scientists to visit the Vero site and investigate it themselves in October 1916 and in March 1917. Aleš Hrdlička, T. Wayland Vaughan, Oliver Perry Hay, George Grant MacCurdy and Rollin T. Chamberlin visited and examined the site. Sellards and Hays concluded that the human bones dated from the Pleistocene. Hrdlička, MacCurdy and Chamberlin argued that the human bones were much more recent, while Vaughan felt that more evidence was needed before making a decision. Hrdlička, the most prominent physical anthropologist in America at the time, was firmly convinced that humans had not arrived in America until well after the Pleistocene had ended.
The human bones excavated by Sellards were passed around various institutions for study. By the time carbon-14 dating of fossils became possible, about 35 years after the discovery of Vero man, some of the bones had been lost, and others had been rendered unusable for such testing due to the way they had been preserved with chemicals. 24 of the human bones collected by Sellards were tested in a study published in 2012, which reported that analysis of the uptake of rare-earth elements by fossils showed that the human bones and Pleistocene animal bones from the Vero site were of comparable ages. This set of human bones is the largest from any Pleistocene site in North America, though their precise age has yet to be determined.
In 2009 scientists announced the discovery of a carving of a mammoth or mastodon on a piece of bone found north of Vero Beach (the general area in which Vero Man was found). The carving may be among the oldest art found in the Americas. Scientists studying the carving noted similarities with Pleistocene art in Europe. Art historian Barbara Olins Alpert has noted that similarity does not prove connection, as finely executed realistic art styles have appeared in various times and places.
In 2014 new excavations at the site of the discovery of Vero man were undertaken by Mercyhurst University and the Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee, a local non-profit organization. The Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee announced the discovery of a possible human living surface at least 12,000 years old during the 2014 excavation season. As of February 2015, excavations continue at the site, with recent finds including 14,000-year-old charred bones from a dire wolf and a horse, possibly from a hearth.
Human bones, artifacts and/or human-modified animal bones in a Pleistocene context have been found elsewhere in Florida, including at the nearby Helen Blazes and Melbourne Bone Bed sites.
Big reveal at Old Vero Man site may resemble crime scene
Archeologists unearthed the remains of a bison dating between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago and on Thursday morning they showed off what they found. Angela Rozier reports. Subscribe to WPBF on YouTube now for more:
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Vero Dig Suggests Human Presence at Site
Florida sinkhole discoveries suggest we’ve been wrong all along about the first humans in America
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — A collection of fossils and artifacts retrieved from a sinkhole in a river on Florida’s Gulf Coast may provide some of the oldest evidence of human presence in North America.
The Page-Ladson archaeological site, submerged 35 feet under Florida’s Aucilla River, was the site of several digs in the 1980s and 1990s.
A new team that included researchers from Florida State University and Texas A&M University decided to follow up on decades-old research between 2012 and 2014. After more than a hundred dives into the sinkhole, the team published their findings last week in the journal Science Advances.
The researchers discovered mastodon bones, fossilized dung and stone tools in the sinkhole that provide compelling evidence that humans spread across North America far earlier than archaeologists previously thought.
According to their research paper, the stone tools recovered from the sinkhole include a biface, a stone that’s been manually sharpened on both ends. On a previous excavation at the site, archaeologists found an adult mastodon tusk that appeared to have human-made grooves along its surface, reported the Christian Science Monitor.
Prehistoric humans called the Clovis culture were believed to have originally arrived in North America via a land bridge about 13,000 years ago — as mammoth bones and spearheads have revealed.
However, according to the Guardian, some of the artifacts recently discovered within the Aucilla River date back to more than 14,550 years ago when the land bridge may not have existed.
What these new discoveries suggest is that a land bridge from Siberia may not be the answer to how the first humans initially colonized North America. Moreover, evidence suggests that people were in North America before the Clovis.
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