From Harvest to Habitat: Oyster Harvesting, Shell Midden Formation, and Estuary Management in Tampa Bay, Florida Jaime Rogers Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/mefkurx6 Estuaries are among the most productive and dynamic ecosystems on Earth and have long served as spaces where humans build place-based traditions through fishing and shellfishing. Centering these interactions as a multidimensional experience, this…
Plying Flooded Landscapes of North-Central Florida and Beyond Dr. Kenneth E. Sassaman The history of human dwelling in Florida is structured by changes in water, from the long-term trend of rising sea since the end of the Ice Age to the events of drought and flooding that recur at various scales. Abundant research addresses the…
Early Homo sapiens in Africa’s Rain Forests: An Unnatural History? Dr. Christopher Kiahtipes Ph.D., Associate Curator of the USF Herbarium; Manager of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment’s Archaeobotany and Paleoecology Laboratory Africa’s rain forests are globally significant environments because of their role in shaping terrestrial biodiversity and regulating major…
Hokfv-Mocvse (5000-4800 BP) and the Emergence of Shell Ring Villages on the Georgia Coast Dr. Carey Garland, Assistant Research Scientist, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia In 2022, a collaborative field school between the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the University of Georgia’s Laboratory of Archaeology identified the Hokfv Mocvse (Muskogean for “new sea shell”) Shell…
How to Throw a Folk Festival in 10 Easy Steps Dr. Dominick Tartaglia, State Folklorist for Florida and Director of the Florida Folklife Program Every May, the Florida Folk Festival welcomes thousands of festival goers to White Springs, Florida for one of the nation’s longest running celebrations of traditional music and arts. The story of…
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,…