Underwater excavation methods / Joseph M. Latvis and Irvy C. Quitmyer -- Geography and geomorphology of the Aucilla River region / Joseph F. Donoghue -- Stratigraphy and sedimentation / David C. Kendrick -- Carbon dates / S. David Webb and James S. Dunbar -- Pleistocene-early Holocene climate change : chronostratigraphy and geoclimate of the Southeast US / James S. Dunbar -- Setting the stage : fossil pollen, stomata, and charcoal / Barbara C.S. Hansen -- Paleoenvironmental aspects of the macrophytic plant assemblage from Page-Ladson / Lee A. Newsom -- Vertebrate paleontology / S. David Webb and Erika Simons -- Non-marine Mollusca -- Kurt Auffenberg, Irvy R. Quitmyer, James D. Williams and Douglas S. Jones -- Mastodons (Mammut americanum) diet foraging patterns based on analysis of dung deposits / Lee A. Newsom and Mathew C. Mihlbachler -- Mastodon tusk recovery / S. David Webb -- Five years in the life of an Aucilla River mastodon / Daniel C. Fisher and David L. Fox -- The biogeochemistry of the Aucilla River fauna / Kathryn A. Hoppe and Paul L. Koch -- Paleoindian archaeology / James S. Dunbar -- Terrestrial soil or submerged sediment : the early archaic at Page-Ladson / Sylvia Scudder -- Early Holocene vertebrate paleontology / Tanya Peres and Erika Simons -- Biogenic silica as an environmental indicator / Russ McCarty and Larry Schwandes -- Early archaic archaeology / Brinnen C. Carter and James S. Dunbar -- Hearths / Mark P. Muniz and C. Andrew Hemmings -- Paleoindian land use / James S. Dunbar