Broad-scale Excavations at Sarabay: Piecing Together the Layout of a Timucuan Town Keith Ashley, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Florida This past summer (2023) the University of North Florida (UNF) completed its fourth consecutive field school in what we believe is the center of the Mocama community of Sarabay. In addition…
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…
Dr. J. Michael Francis: “Lost Voices from St. Augustine’s Parish Archive” Join us for the final event in our celebration of Florida Archaeology Month with a talk from Dr. J. Michael Francis. Dr. Francis will introduce attendees to the oldest surviving parish records in the United States which come from St. Augustine, FL. He will…
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…
Beer – A Global Journey Through the Past and Present Dr. John Arthur, Ph.D., USF, St. Petersburg Ancient and contemporary beers from the Near East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas document the remarkable influence Indigenous beers have had in shaping the development of food production, state level societies, and is an essential food for…
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…
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…