Lectures

In the Footsteps of Flag and Jody: Historical Archaeology of The Yearling Edward González-Tennant December 12, 2024 7PM EST The Yearling is one of the nation’s most beloved books. Set in a rapidly disappearing rural Florida, the captivating story of young Jody Baxter and his beloved pet fawn Flag is as powerful today as when…

The Spanish Seminole: The Untold History of the Spanish Indians as Told by a Descendant David Rahahę·tih Webb NOVEMBER 7, 2024 7PM EST  (ONLINE EVENT REGISTRATION LINK In the 1700s, as Florida’s Indigenous tribes were displaced, the forebears of the Miccosukee and Seminole descended along the southwestern Gulf Coast. They soon began working with Hispanic-Latino and…

Foodways of the Florida Frontier: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Gamble Plantation Historic State Park (8MA100) Mary Maisel SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 7PM EST  IN PERSON EVENT AT: USF St. Petersburg campus Nelson Poynter Memorial Library The Gamble Plantation sits on the banks of the Manatee River in Ellenton Florida and has been home to a wide variety…

Discoveries from the Garrison Kelsey Kreiser The Garrison Neighborhood, established in 1896, was the first Black-owned neighborhood in Tampa. Until the 1940s the neighborhood flourished with Black-owned businesses, schools, and churches. Despite this, few mentions of the neighborhood exist in archaeological reports of the area. Downtown Tampa’s archaeological requirements prioritizes the National Register eligible Fort…

New 3D Digital Studies on the Roman Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina (Sicily) Davide Tanasi, Department of History at the University of South Florida 3D digitization for the study of archaeological heritage and the global dissemination of knowledge has proven to be extremely beneficial to the discipline. These digital approaches are increasingly used to…

Sea Changes: The Current State of Submerged Paleolandscape Prospection and Assessments, Inside and Outside the Private Sector Dr. Jessica Cook Hale, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Archaeologists once assumed that submerged, formerly terrestrial components of the shallow continental shelf retained little to no evidence of human occupations drowned by sea level rise over the…

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…