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A century ago, the Old Vero Site was brought to prominence by Elias
Sellards upon his claim that the site contained early human remains
associated with Pleistocene fauna. It was the first serious
challenge to the belief, widely accepted until the Folsom
discoveries in 1926, that humans had not entered Florida before the
current Holocene geological epoch. The claim that human remains at
the site were contemporary with late Ice Age animals stirred
enduring controversy. Recent construction near the site resulted in
new archaeological work being completed from 2014 to 2017. The Old
Vero Site (8IR009) details the course of the recent re-excavations
of the Old Vero Site while also summarizing the original
excavations from a century ago. Additionally, the volume lays out
the sequence and results of the recent project, using these new
data to assess the accuracy of Sellards’s assertions. This
re-examination determined that Sellards’s claims are not
supported by the evidence. Adovasio, Hemmings, and Vento provide
the data to settle the matter definitively: human remains at the
site were intrusive from a later time horizon, as critics of the
original work had vociferously argued.
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