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Multi-periodSite Name: Vero Beach Alternative Name: Vero Man Site
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 0.433 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Indian River
Latitude: 27.639027N  Longitude: 80.394027W
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Vero Beach submitted by Flickr : The First American Wildlife Artist Prints of this image are for sale here: daniel-eskridge.artistwebsites.com/featured/the-first-ame... On a fallen log in a marshy field sits a bearded man wearing a brown furry animal hide. On a piece of bone he is carving an image using a chipped piece of stone. The subject of his art is a Columbian mammoth that is trudging through the clearing a few hund... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Florida. Historical society looks to fund professional dig of 'Vero Man' site. An old archeological site in Vero Beach is getting more attention as archeologists grow eager to excavate and learn more about artifacts that may be lying beneath the surface.

In order to get to that point, Vero Beach city officials and the Indian River County Historical Society are looking for ways to protect and preserve the location known as the Vero Man site.

The Vero Man site was discovered in the early 1900s and scientists from around the nation and even some from other countries came to visit, finding human bones, large animal bones and pottery shards and tools, said Ruth Stanbridge, county historian.

The only problem was those scientists took whatever they found back with them, and didn't leave an accurate portrayal of what was found and in what sediment layers, she said.

According to records, the bones of both a man and a woman were found in the independent excavations, but the bones are now scattered in museums and nothing can be accurately put back together again to verify authenticity, Mrs. Stanbridge said.

"It's kind of like having the blood in one place, and the knife in another. It's a mystery and a controversy," she said.

Barbara Purdy, an anthropologist who has researched Florida artifacts extensively, believes there may be more to discover at the Vero Man site.

In order to pave the way for a professional excavation in the future, the historical society, with the help of Mrs. Stanbridge, is seeking support to protect the site with resolutions by local governing bodies.

Both the Indian River County and Vero Beach officials are expected to pass resolutions pledging support for protection.

After the resolutions are taken to Tallahassee, Mrs. Stanbridge said state archeologists are willing to help them secure eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places.

"Not only will it safeguard it (the Vero Man site) but it will also open up funding opportunities so we can survey in advance the areas and have a professional, scientific excavation by people like Dr. Purdy," Mrs. Stanbridge said.

"If there are significant artifacts, we need to keep them here in Indian River County, and not let them slip away like before," she said.

The Vero Man site is close to the municipal airport and the county administration building and is tied in with sections of the main relief canal.

Funding for the survey and subsequent excavation will undoubtedly need to start with interested citizens and local organizations, Mrs. Stanbridge said.

"A number of people have already said they will participate with us. This is not something that will happen quickly, it will take some time, but we want to do it right," she said.

Ms. Purdy will speak at the Emerson Center on March 4 with other scientists interested in uncovering more of the mystery that is the Vero Man site, Mrs. Stanbridge said.


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Smithsonian Institution supports ancient claims for Vero beach Mammoth Carving by bat400 on Tuesday, 05 July 2011
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An engraving of an Ice Age mammoth on a fossil bone possibly represents the oldest drawing in the Americas. Mammoths disappeared from eastern North America 13,000 years ago, so the etching must be at least that old, says a team led by anthropologist Robert Speakman of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute in Suitland, Md. Replacement of the original bone by minerals prevents DNA extraction or radiocarbon dating, the scientists explain in a paper published online June 12 in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

For more see: http://www.sciencenews.org and the primary source article: Journal of Archaeological Sciende, on-line, 12 June 2011.
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Scientists urge full-scale excavation of 'Vero Man' archaeological site by Andy B on Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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For four scientists from Florida and Colorado, there is no question about the need for a full-scale excavation into the city’s Ice Age archaeology, they said on Thursday.

The city is one of a few places in the United States where human skeletal remains apparently have been found with bones of now extinct animals — indicating they lived together here from 11,000 to 13,000 years ago, archaeological researcher Tom Stafford of Colorado said during a press conference at the Emerson Center.

Also, an amateur collector found a just-as-old bone near here with an etching of a mammoth on it, said Richard Hulbert, a paleontologist with the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.

It is presumed to be the oldest known art object of its type found in the New World, the researcher said.

“I’d like to have that (an image of it) flying on a flag outside the museum,” Hulbert said.

The scientists spoke as a local group, the Old Vero Ice Age Committee, is launching an effort to collect $500,000 in donations for excavation and research here, in conjunction with the Indian River County Historical Society,

The money is needed, said group spokeswoman Susan Grandpierre, before the group can apply for government permits to excavate.

In her estimation, the significance will draw long-lasing attention to the city. “Unlike the Dodgers, it will remain,” she said.

The excavation would center on a canal bank, near the county Administration Building, where around 1915 dredging unearthed human remains, including a skull, along with remains of now extinct animals including mammoths.

Altogether, about 66 human bone fragments were recovered from five individuals of undetermined sexes, said Hulbert and Barbara Purby, a retired University of Florida professor who specializes in Ice Age archaeology.

The skull vanished but all the other bones from the so-called Vero Man site are at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

But because the bones lost all their carbon while in the ground, they can’t be dated using modern radiocarbon dating, said Hulbert.

That leaves lingering doubts about their antiquity, which the scientists hope to dispel by using modern excavation techniques.

The original discovery made national newspapers, but it went counter to scientific conventions at the time: that humans had only been in Florida for a few thousand years.

Florida may have other such buried remains, but Vero Beach’s is the only one that has been found — and that was done accidentally by digging a canal, Hulbert said.

“It has such a high concentration of animals bones from 120 species,” Hulbert said.

Fossils were so numerous here 80 years ago that the Vero Man site became a roadside tourist attraction named Tarzan Park. Visitors went out with buckets to pick up pieces.

Today, “It is time capsule,” Stafford said. “It is unique and rare. Once it is gone (allowed to be built upon) it is gone.”

Humans continued to live in Florida after the Ice Age, but many other animals vanished. Today scientists theorize that could be due to everything from humans over-hunting to comets striking the earth.

Regardless of the exact cause, “It was catastrophic,” Purdy said. Above the buried layers containing Ice Age animal remains, “there is an erosion zone.” Above that is no evidence of them.

That, said University of Florida researcher Kevin Jones, helped prove that the etched bone, found within a few miles of the Vero Man site, is around 11,000 to 13,000 years old.

The person who created the etching, with a shark tooth or flint implement, had to have seen a live animal to have drawn it in such detail, he said.

And Jones’ used an electron microscope to confirm that it wasn’t a fake. “All evidence points to it being an aut

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Epic carving on fossil bone found in Vero Beach by Andy B on Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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