Discover Weedon Island's Ancient Past

Registration is now open 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.

CLICK TO RESERVE YOUR ADVENTURE!

Video courtesy of Richard Ott and FPAN.

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AWIARE ENDOWMENT FUND

DISCOVERING THE PAST; MAKING HISTORY

BE A PART OF IT.
As we continue our quest to become a premiere research facility fostering scientific knowledge of our past requires expansion and growth of our current programs and facilities.

BE AN ADVOCATE OF AWIARE.
Become part of a living time capsule.  From an individual donation to an endowment.  Each gift connects people to nature, to history, and to Tampa Bay's legacy.  A gift to the AWIARE Endowment Fund will help achieve our financial goal and support our mission of discovery, research, and education.  All gifts will grow in value through the Pinellas Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.

See How What You Give Becomes Something We All Can Keep.
Endowed funds provide a lasting source of support for AWIARE. Donors may give either outright or defer gifts to establish these funds.

The AWIARE Endowment Fund can be accessed via this QR code
or at pinellascf.org/AWIARE

 

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NEWS & EVENTS

 

SPECIAL VIDEO PRESENTATION

Weedon Island Preserve, at approximately 3,700 acres, is an ecological jewel within an urban landscape on the shores of Old Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, Florida. A refuge for native flora and fauna, Weedon Island is also one of Florida's most important cultural resources. Discover the rich human history of the Island that began thousands of years ago and witness how the environment and people support and shaped each other to produce the Preserve we know today.

This production was made possible through the support of the Friends of Weedon Island, an organization dedicated to the continuing education, protection, and preservation of the Weedon Island Preserve.