Events
Heritage at Risk for Mound House Volunteers
Mound House, Fort Myers Beach
March 6, 08:00:00 AM — 09:00:00 AM
This is a private event. Learn about Florida\'s heritage and how risks like erosion, rising sea levels, and looting threaten our state\'s cultural resources, and ways archaeologists and the public are helping to keep them safe.
The Past Contained: Florida\'s Prehistoric Pottery Tradition
Hernando County Public Library, 238 Howell Ave Brooksville, Fl 34601
March 6, 02:00:00 PM — 03:00:00 PM
Pottery was an important part of Native American culture and has also become a valuable artifact for archaeologists today. In this presentation learn all about the Native American process for making pottery, how and why they used it, and what information archaeologists can get from studying these small pieces of the past.
Pensacola Archaeological Society Lecture Series
J. Earle Bowden Building, 120 Church Street, Pensacola, FL
March 6, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
Join us for the annual UWF Archaeology field schools summer 2017 recap/summer 2018 preview with presentations by Dr. John Bratten, Dr. Greg Cook, Dr. Elizabeth Benchley, Dr. John Worth, and Dr. Ramie Gougeon. This event is free and open to the public!
SAAA Lecture: 3D Imagaing + Preservation at the Castillo de San Marcos
Flagler Room, Flagler College
March 6, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
Using the latest in 3D and specialized imaging tools, archaeologists and GIScience specialists with the University of South Florida Libraries\' Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections are working in partnership with the Southeast Archeological Center of the National Park Service, creating up-to-date as-built and 3D models of the Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas. These data will be used to monitor and analyze change and to assist in planning and management of these important masonry structures. The results will also help to create interactive tourism and learning opportunities for the public, such as 3D models and virtual reality tours. In this talk, we will focus on some of our early results and share a vision for how these data will be used, shared, and help in the preservation planning for these nationally significant resources. Lecture presented by Lori Collins, Research Associate, USF Libraries and School of Geosciences
Lecture: Florida Transportation History: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Highlands Hammock State Park 5931 Hammock Road Sebring, FL 33872
March 6, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
Florida Humanities Speaker Series: “Florida Transportation History: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (& Steamboats too!)” by Steve Noll Florida’s history as territory and state can be told through the changing methods of transportation designed to move people and goods both to Florida and within Florida. Examining the changing transportation networks in the state, Dr. Steven Noll will trace how Florida changed from a backwoods frontier to one of the most important states in the union. Tying transportation history to social history, Dr. Noll will take us on a journey that moves from the Bellamy Road of the 1820s to the modern transportation issues currently facing the Sunshine State. He will also look at transportation in the Heartland and touch on the history of transportation with respect to cattle and citrus. A “Meet and Greet” with Dr. Noll accompanied by book sales and signings will be held from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm prior to his lecture in the park recreation hall. Parking will be available in the overflow fields at the campground entrance. ADA handicapped accessible parking is available at the park recreation hall. The lecture is free and park entry fees are waived
Lecture: Flocking to the Solstice: An Analysis of Avian Remains from a Civic-Ceremonial Center on th
Bureau of Archaeological Research/Governor Martin House 1001 De Soto Park Drive
March 6, 07:00:00 PM — 08:30:00 PM
Please join us to this free event as we welcome Bureau of Archaeological Research\'s Josh Goodwin: Recent excavations at Shell Mound (8LV42), a civic-ceremonial center on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida, have revealed many pit features with vertebrate faunal remains. One such feature, a large, silo-shaped pit yielded a proportionately large number of skeletal elements identified to several species of waterbirds, a trait unique among contemporaneous sites reported within the area. The archaeological record of pre-Columbian cultures of the North American Southeast demonstrates the ritual importance of birds in the form of effigy pipes, copper and mica cutouts, and mortuary vessels that extend well into and beyond the first millennium A.D. Given the spatial and temporal relationship of Shell Mound with a large mortuary facility (Palmetto Mound), and the relationship of the faunal contents with recurring iconographic characters of this time period, the faunal assemblage from Feature 25 should be expected to represent practices outside of everyday subsistence. Based upon the presence of juvenile white ibis elements, which offer a proxy for the timing of capture for this apparently ritually charged class of animal, the presence of waterbird elements recovered in this context are proposed to represent ritualized deposition coinciding with events surrounding the summer solstice.