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Roberts Recreation Center | 1246 50th Ave N, St Petersburg, FL 33703-3542, United States The Anthropogenic Movement of Lightning Whelk Across the Eastern United States and Southern Canada Michelle Calhoun, Archaeological Consultants Inc. (ACI) Lightning whelk (Sinistrofulgur perversum) have been integral to the lives of some Native People throughout eastern North America since at least…

Findings from Florida: Perspectives on Submerged Landscape Research from the Epicenter of the Discipline in North America Dr. Morgan F. Smith, UC Foundation Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga The State of Florida hosts the densest recorded concentration of submerged Indigenous archaeological sites in North America, possibly the world. These resources range from…

Tracing the Roots of Cultural Kinship: The Journey of Jaguar and Puma Tooth Pendants from Terra Firma to a Caribbean Island Dr. Diane Wallman, Associate Professor, University of South Florida Big cats hold symbolic significance across cultures, especially in the Americas, where felids such as jaguars and pumas are revered and respected. In South American…

Shell Midden Landscapes of the Western Atchafalaya Basin Dr. Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Associate Professor in Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Florida State University Monumental shell works, shell middens, and earthen mounds are found throughout the interior of the Atchafalaya Basin and just inland from the margins of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Many of…

North America’s First Pots: Insights into Stallings Culture and Cuisine Dr. Emily Bartz, Arkansas Archeological Survey and the University of Arkansas At the intersection of clay, cuisine, and culture, pottery offers profound insights into ancient communities. In this talk, Dr. Emily Bartz explores the cultural history of the Stallings culture of the Savannah River valley,…

The Long Human History of Tampa Bay Dr. Evan Bennett People have lived in the Tampa Bay area for far longer than there has been a bay. Much of the record of human life around the bay has been left in mounds and middens or etched on its shorelines. Too often, though, in the history…

Mapping the American Sea: A Cartographic History of the Gulf of Mexico Rodney Kite-Powell, Director of the Touchton Map Library, Tampa Bay History Center America’s history has been largely written as an inevitable march from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, an unstoppable manifest destiny starting with the English colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth,…