Sticks of Fire: Toponymic Imaginaries in Tampa Bay Dr. Thomas Pluckhahn, University of South Florida It is a story repeated so often as to be widely accepted as fact: the city of Tampa—and, by extension, the eponymous estuary on which it is located—take their names from a word for “sticks of fire” or “split wood…
Four Years and Two Shipwrecks in LaSoye Bay, Dominica Marie Meranda Doctoral Candidate (Anthropology), University of South Florida Maritime archaeology work began in LaSoye Bay in 2019 as a dissertation project to complement research on a settlement discovered on LaSoye’s shore during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2016. Over years of archaeological research, we…
Climate Change and Cultural Sites in Florida Rachael Kangas, M.A. Director of the West Central and Central Regions, Florida Public Archaeology Network How do we protect cemeteries, historic buildings, and archaeological sites that are threatened by climate change in Florida? How is it decided which sites get attention and which do not? Join the Central…
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Tracing Marine Transgression at Manasota Key Offshore (8SO7030) using Crassostrea virginica Melissa R. Price Manasota Key Offshore (MKO; 8SO7030) is a Florida Archaic period mortuary pond (7214 ± 30 cal BP) consisting of worked wooden stakes and human remains preserved in peat. It was initially located inland of the current coastline prior to Holocene sea level…
Shell Mounds, Coastal Evolution, and Indigenous Engineering of Tampa Bay’s Inshore Bayous Kendal Jackson In this talk, Kendal Jackson discusses key findings from recent geological and archaeological investigations at several of Tampa Bay’s inshore bayous, including Double Branch Bay, Papy’s Bayou, Cockroach Bay, and Bishop Harbor. Drawing on data from 65 estuarine sediment cores and…
Indian Slavery and Maronnage in Early Modern Florida Theodora Light This presentation analyses instances of Indian maronnage across La Florida and the circum-Caribbean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As Indian slavery spread across the Spanish and English territories, distinct communities of displaced peoples appear across the historical record. Using the frameworks of maronnage, this…
Hunter-Gatherer Settlement and Subsistence at Letchworth Mounds (8JE337) Martin Menz, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan The Letchworth site (8JE337) near Tallahassee is one of the largest Woodland period ceremonial centers in Florida. The site includes a 15-meter tall platform mound and several other low mounds, as well as a habitation area roughly 500-meters across….
Localized Histories of Calusa Ecology and Economy, Southwestern Florida, AD 1000 — 1500 Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Climate Science, Penn State University Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Climate Science at Penn State University. She is the director for the Socio-Ecological Histories of Estuarine Landscapes (SHEL) Lab…