Editing Vero Beach, Florida (section)

===Pre-Columbian===

{{See also|Vero man}}
Parts of a human skeleton were found north of Vero in association with the remains of [[Pleistocene]] animals in 1915. The find was controversial, and the view that the human remains dated from much later than the Pleistocene prevailed for many years.<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://www.academia.edu/1435978|title=The Vero and Melbourne Discoveries: Scientific Controversy in the Early Twentieth Century|last1=Mitchem|first1=Jeffery M.|date=2006|conference=58th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society|access-date=May 8, 2019|pages=1–3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508194013/https://www.academia.edu/1435978/The_Vero_and_Melbourne_Discoveries_Scientific_Controversy_in_the_Early_Twentieth_Century|archive-date=May 8, 2019|url-status=live }}</ref> In 2006, an image of a mastodon or mammoth carved on a bone was found in vicinity of the Vero man discovery. A scientific forensic examination of the bone found the carving had probably been done in the Pleistocene.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Purdy|first1=Barbara A. |last2=Jones |first2=Kevin S. |last3=Mecholsky |first3=Gerald Bourne |last4=Hurlbert Jr. |first4=Richard C. |last5=MacFadden |first5=Bruce J. |author-link5=Bruce MacFadden |last6=Church |first6=Krista L. |last7=Warren |first7=Michael W. |last8=Jorstad |first8=Thomas F. |last9=Stanford |first9=Dennis J. |last10=Wachowiak |first10=Melvin J. |last11=Speakman |first11=Robert J.|title=Earliest Art in the Americas: incised image of a proboscidean on a mineralized extinct animal bone from Vero Beach, Florida|journal=[[Journal of Archaeological Science]]|date=November 2011|volume=38|issue=11|pages=2908–2913|doi=10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.022}}</ref> Archaeologists from [[Mercyhurst University]], in conjunction with the Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee (OVIASC), conducted excavations at the Old Vero Man site in Vero Beach in 2014–2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.tcpalm.com/news/indian-river-county/mercyhurst-university-pulls-out-of-old-vero-man-site-excavations-24aa0773-21c8-5a74-e053-0100007fb3b-352318471.html|title=Mercyhurst University pulls out of Old Vero Man site excavations|last=Begley|first=Janet|date=November 20, 2015|work=TCPalm|access-date=May 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508152845/http://archive.tcpalm.com/news/indian-river-county/mercyhurst-university-pulls-out-of-old-vero-man-site-excavations-24aa0773-21c8-5a74-e053-0100007fb3b-352318471.html|archive-date=May 8, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Starting in 2016, archaeologists from [[Florida Atlantic University]] joined the Old Vero Man site excavations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oviasc.org/Partnership-With-FAU.html|title=Partnership-FAU/Harbor Branch|website=Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee|access-date=May 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508152846/http://www.oviasc.org/Partnership-With-FAU.html|archive-date=May 8, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>