Earliest art in the Americas: Incised image of a proboscidean on a mineralized extinct animal bone from Vero Beach, Florida

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2908-2913

  Purdy, Barbara A ^a   Jones, Kevin S ^b   Mecholsky, John J ^b   Bourne, Gerald ^b   Hulbert, Richard C ^c   MacFadden, Bruce J ^c   Church, Krista L ^d   Warren, Michael W ^a   Jorstad, Thomas F ^e   Stanford, Dennis J ^e   Wachowiak, Melvin J ^f   Speakman, Robert J ^f  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f MUSEUM CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Incised art; Mammoth; Mastodon; Old Vero site; Terminal Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ART; BACKSCATTER; BONE; FAUNA; PLEISTOCENE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; MASTODON; SLOTHS;

EID: 80052279443     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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