PaleoAmerica· 2026Q1
Chert Provenance Supports a ∼4000-year Late Pleistocene through Early Holocene Connection between the Flint and Aucilla Rivers in the Lower Southeastern United States
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New chert provenance data from an artifact at Page-Ladson suggests a ~4000-year connection between the Flint and Aucilla Rivers during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.
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Key points
- New chert provenance data comes from an artifact found at the Page-Ladson site, which has geoarchaeological evidence of the earliest people in the southeastern US.
- The artifact belongs to the older-than-Clovis component at Page-Ladson.
- The data situates the artifact within the broader late Pleistocene and early Holocene provenance framework of the region.
- The findings suggest a connection between the Flint and Aucilla Rivers spanning approximately 4000 years.
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Abstract
Page-Ladson has produced compelling geoarchaeological evidence of the earliest recorded people in the southeastern United States. This research brief presents new chert provenance data on one artifact from the older-than-Clovis component at Page-Ladson and situates it within the broader late Pleistocene and early Holocene provenance framework in the region. The goal of this manuscript is to present this datapoint and generate new and testable hypotheses that inform the initial settlement of the American Southeast.
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