Fire and Water: Pre-Columbian landscape management in the Southwestern Amazon Dr. Neil Duncan, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida Recent investigations reveal that peoples of the Llanos de Mojos of Bolivia utilized hydrological engineering in the seasonally flooded savanna to modify the landscape for farming, fishing, and hunting. For thousands of years, people significantly transformed…
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The Archaeology of Colonialism at Fort Mose: Forging Freedom Through Practice Lori Lee, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Flagler College Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in North America. The Spanish governor of Florida guaranteed the legal freedom of self-emancipated Africans and African Americans if they converted to Catholicism, built and…
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. Types of projects that will be considered include field research, laboratory analyses, collections research, and documents research. Priority will be given to…
Discovering Weedon Island’s Past Fifteen hikers recently got to walk out to an archeological dig site on Weedon Island where a USF professor and his students are learning about the first people to inhabit Pinellas County. Weedon Island walk leads hikers to archaeological excavation site By Photojournalist Mike Hughes | Published March 17, 2022, Pinellas…
Black Cemeteries Matter: Erasure of historic Black Cemeteries in Polk County, Florida Juliana Waters, CRM archaeologist and master’s student in the Department of Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida In the past several years, the Tampa Bay area has experienced a reckoning with regard to the intentional erasure, destruction, and abandonment of historic…
Ice Age Florida in Story and Art Robert Sinibaldi, PhD (author) and Hermann Trappman (artist) Florida’s Ice Age was vastly different from what the North experienced. Ice Age Florida: In Story and Art investigates the fascinating fossil record and prehistory of the Gulf Coast compared to what most envision when the term Ice Age comes…
Muskogean Council Houses and Indigenous Democracy in the Southeastern US Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Washington University Recent re-dating of the Cold Springs site in northern Georgia has led to the identification of the earliest known council houses in the ancestral Muskogean homeland by at least AD 500. This is roughly 500 years earlier…
Lost Cities of the Cloud Forest: Archaeology in the Eastern Andes Anna Guengerich, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Eckerd College Located between the Andes Mountains range and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin, the Eastern Andes were long assumed to be too rugged, too rainy, and too dense with vegetation to support the development…
Feasting and Fishes: An Investigation into Seasonal Patterns, Labor Organization, and Monumental Architecture from Florida’s Crystal River Site and Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex In recent decades, archaeological research has provided evidence that some mounds in the southeastern United States were constructed in short episodes. A large work force would have been required to accomplish…