Events
Public Archaeology Lab Volunteering
FPAN Coordinating Center 207 East Main Street
March 11, 10:00:00 AM — 04:00:00 PM
The FPAN Archaeology Lab is open to volunteers throughout the year. Volunteers help rough sort artifacts recovered from local archaeological sites. No experience is needed, but all volunteers are given a brief orientation by a professional archaeologist their first day.
Florida on Fire lecture
Indian River State College Feilden Lifelong Learning Institute
March 11, 11:45:00 AM — 12:45:00 PM
Humans have utilized fire for over 500,000 years. Since its capture and domestication, fire has transformed human civilization, affecting diet, material culture, even our anatomy, and its control is frequently cited as one of the demarcations separating “human” from “nonhuman.” Prehistoric Floridians relied heavily on fire, and we see its application in numerous aspects of their culture. But fire has played a fundamental role within our state’s prehistory and history. This presentation will explore the numerous ways fire has transformed our state.
Pensacola Archaeological Society Monthly Meeting
West Florida Public Library Main Branch 239 North Spring Street
March 11, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
Free and open to the public!
Disston Heights Civic Association General Meeting with Guest Speaker Robert Austin
St Petersburg Community Church 4501 30th Ave N
March 11, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
The Disston Heights Civic Association will be participating in Florida Archaeology Month by hosting Robert Austin Ph.D., Senior Principal Investigator for Southeastern Archaeological Research Inc. Bob is scheduled to speak for a half hour on the Bayshore Homes site in northwest St Pete.
SAAA Lecture: The Demise of Keystone Species during Paleoindian Times
Flagler Room, Flagler College 74 King Street
March 11, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
The late Pleistocene Southeast had the greatest number and diversity of animal species compared to the rest of North America. By the beginning of the Holocene, the extinction or extirpation of species was greatest in the Southeast. Although many researchers have theorized that wild fire regimes increased due to humans, there is another, more subtle explanation. At the same time many Florida river systems transformed to entrenched channel systems during the Holocene. Could it have been the diminishing population of two keystone species affected by humans, rather than people themselves, that were the inadvertent agents of habitat change?
Lecture - Current Paleoindian Research at Vero Beach and Around Florida
North Port Community United Church of Christ 3450 South Biscayne Boulevard - Decker Hall
March 11, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
Dr. Andy Hemmings will be the speaker at the March 11 meeting of the WMS/LSSAS in a program titled \"Current Paleoindian Research at Vero Beach, the Gulf of Mexico, and Interesting Points around Florida.\" This will be a special Florida Archaeology Month presentation which follows the 2014 FAM theme, \"Tracing Florida\'s First People: Paleoindians.\" Working at Florida sites like Sloth Hole, Aucilla and Wacissa Rivers, and submerged environments in Florida, Mexico and elsewhere, Dr. Hemmings is one of Florida\'s most knowledgeable and experienced experts on early human presence in the Americas. He is currently a professor of archaeology and anthropology at Mercyhurst University. Andy is currently lead archaeologist at the Vero Beach site and is presently conducting field investigations at the site until May 2014.