An Ice Age Mystery: Unearthing the Secrets of the Old Vero Site

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In 1916, to the shock of the scientific community and the world at large, a Florida geologist discovered human remains mixed with the bones of prehistoric animals in a Vero Beach canal and proclaimed that humans had lived in North The us since the Ice Age. These new findings by Elias Sellards flew in the face of prevailing wisdom, which held that humans first came to the continent only 6,000 years ago. His claim was once snubbed by the top scientists of his day, he was once laughed out of the state, Vero’s fame declined, and the skull Sellards found–famously referred to as “Vero Man “–was once lost.

An Ice Age Mystery tells the story of Sellards’s exciting find and the controversy it sparked. In the years that followed, other archaeological discoveries and the upward push of radiocarbon dating established that humans did arrive in North The us earlier than up to now thought. The skull, then again, was once never recovered, and many of us began to wonder: What exactly had Sellards found at Vero? And what else might be buried there?

One hundred years after the first Vero discovery, construction plans threatened to cover up the legendary dig site, and a band of citizens and archaeologists protested. Excavations were reopened. Archaeologists uncovered 14,000-year-old burnt mammal bones and charcoal, signs of a human presence, and found further evidence to indicate a continuous human occupation of the site for several thousand years. Prior to the recent excavations an etching on a bone possibly 13,000 years old was once discovered which may be the oldest piece of art in The us. Sellards had been right all along.

Many questions still remain. Who were these people? Where did they come from? And how did they get here? This book draws readers into the past, present, and future of one of the crucial historic discoveries in American archaeology.

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