In what MAI Director James Adovasio, Ph.D., describes as the most extensive Paleoindian excavation currently under way in all of North America, that being the Old Vero Man site where Sellards drew his now century-old conclusions, evidence uncovered recently by MAI positively demonstrates the contemporaneous presence of humans and late Pleistocene animals.

The MAI began its Vero excavation last year at the invitation of the Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee (OVIASC), a dedicated group of citizens determined to define Vero’s rightful place in the archaeological record. OVIASC has been instrumental in raising the funds necessary for the first season of excavation that ran January to May 2014, and will commence again in January 2015.

Although actual human remains were not retrieved in the dig’s first round, certain artifacts identified during the excavation, among them burned fragments of bone, some with cut marks; could only be the work of human beings, Adovasio said.