The Tools of Early Man
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45 minutes from Tallahassee is the Aucil la River - now the oldest knownsite of human l i fe in the southeastern United States .
FSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessi Hall igan and researchersfrom Texas A&M and University of Michigan discovered evidence of human
activity dating back
14 ,550 years
Stone tools and mastodon bones were recovered from the site .
One mastodon tusk bared cutmarks from a tool in a layer more
than 14 ,000 years old .
Prior to this discovery , scientistsbel ieved a group of people cal ledClovis sett led the area about
13 ,200 years ago .
Using the latest radiocarbon techniques , researchers dated theart i facts origins to about 14 ,550 years ago .
"This is a big deal . There were people here . Sohow did they l ive?
This has opened up a whole new l ine of inquiryfor us as scientists as we try to understand the
settlement of the Americas . "
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