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AWIARE IS ACCEPTING RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS -2024 LEARN MORE ABOUT IT HERE!
AWIARE, in cooperation with the Levett Foundation, is making available up to $10,000 to provide assistance to graduate students who are conducting archaeological, historical, and paleoenvironmental research in the greater Tampa Bay region.The Weedon Island Archaeological Site (8PI1) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Use of the AWIARE Research Station is open to qualified researchers and graduate students who wish to conduct archaeological research related to Weedon Island and associated regional cultures.
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FLORIDA'S WATERY REALMS
The Weedon Island Canoe is featured in a new book by University Press of Florida, Iconography and Wetsite Archaeology of Florida’s Watery Realms. The book includes a chapter written by Phyllis Kolianos and titled, “Wood Preservation Dilemmas of Florida’s Prehistoric Saltwater Sites: Key Marco and Weedon Island” which details the preservation of the canoe. This book edited by Ryan Wheeler and Joanna Ostapkowicz is part of the Ripley P. Bullen series, and explores new discoveries and reexamines existing artifacts to reveal the influential role of water in the daily lives of Florida’s early inhabitants.To order a copy visit: www.upf.com
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JR ARCHAEOLOGIST SUMMER CAMP
Jr. Archaeologist Summer Camp 2024
July 1 - 3, 2024, (9a - 3p)
AWIARE is planning an exciting new junior archaeology summer camp at Weedon Island Preserve designed for children 7-11 years old who are interested in exploring the past. The camp is conducted by professional archaeologists and allow kids to experience archaeology first-hand through activities, experiments, hikes, and an excavation.
The summer camp is designed for children with an interest in prehistory and history as well as learning how early people interacted with their environment. Campers learn about the importance of archaeology and gain an understanding about early natural resources that were necessary for life in the Tampa Bay region. Highlights of the camp include guest experts, tour of an archaeological site, hands-on archaeology, lab analysis, pottery making, atlatl adventure, and earning the certificate of Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.
We hope you will consider joining us this summer!
Discover Weedon Island's Ancient Past
Don't Wait - only a couple of spots remaining... for the Hands-On Adult Archaeology Camps. We hope you will join us in discovering the prehistory of the Tampa Bay region.
One-week camps offered in 2024:
February 26 - March 1, and March 4 - 8!
Experience hands-on archaeology at Weedon Island Preserve, one of Florida’s preeminent archaeological sites. Work with professional archaeologists and researchers to uncover clues about the culture and lifeways of the early people who inhabited the Tampa Bay region. AWIARE offers two one-week camps where you will be part of a small group limited to eight participants each week assisting AWIARE researchers in excavation, recording data, screening sediment, and collecting artifacts, bone, and samples. You will also help sorting and processing artifacts from the excavation and other sites in the Tampa Bay area.
Archaeologists Dr. Robert Austin and Dr. John Arthur will give talks about the site and local Indigenous history.
We also will take a field trip to Emerson Point Preserve to see the Portavant Mound.
Expedition cost: $550 per week, which includes daily lunch at the AWIARE Research Station. Return campers receive a 15% discount. The camp is an active participant level with walks to and from the site over some uneven terrain.
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Video courtesy of Richard Ott and FPAN.