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…
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…