Put a table* at the bottom of a page?

(I just learned about this recently:) This can be solved by loading the stfloats package and specifying a figure placement of [bp] as usual. (The p should always be included in case the bottom placement can never be achieved.)

Use

\usepackage{dblfloatfix}

and thereof the command

\begin{table*}[!b]

This works better than stfloats, as stfloats jumbles up some figures occationally