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…
Be a part of International Archaeology Day with youth activities at Weedon Island Preserve. AWIARE will lead a special Youth Workshop on Ancient Pottery that is for youth ages 6 and up. Learn to make pottery like the ancient people who once lived at Weedon Island. Over 1,000 years ago, early potters made coiled pots out…
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…