Lunch With An Archaeologist

Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve, Yankeetown 1001 Old Rock Road Yankeetown, FL 34498

March 13, 12:00:00 AM — 02:00:00 PM

Bring your brown-bag lunch and lots of questions! Have lunch with an archaeologist! Gary Ellis of G.A.R.I (Gulf Archaeological Research Institute)will be discussing the archaeology of the Nature Coast.

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Ancient Cultures of Shell Mound

county road 326, off Hwy 347, near Cedar Key, FL none available

March 13, 10:00:00 AM — 11:30:00 PM

Meet in the small parking lot past the county campground. Join the Ranger for a free walk over the mound with weapons demonstrations and ancient southeastern music. Visual aids, featuring the striking art of Theodore Morris, will help your mind\'s eye imagine the \"shell cultures\" who lived along the Gulf coast.,

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Archaeology of Death lecture

Merrirtt Island Public Library 1195 N Courtenay Pkwy

March 13, 06:30:00 PM — 07:30:00 PM

How we treat the dead is directly tied to culture. Burial practices are expressions of our belief systems and social structure and go back tens of thousands of years. Archaeologists reconstruct these traditions through the analysis of graves. How the body is prepared, its position within the ground, and the items that accompany the deceased provide valuable information about ancient practices, as do the skeletons themselves. We’ll explore the archaeology of death and examine how funerary customs illuminate the past.

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Beyond our Backyard: Archaeology around the World Lecture Series

West Florida Public Library Main Branch 239 North Spring Street

March 13, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM

In celebration of Florida Archaeology Month, March 2014, join us for the \"Beyond our Backyard: Archaeology around the World\" lecture series! March 13: Dr. Kristina Killgrove, UWF Assistant Professor of Anthropology, \"In Search of the Founders of Berlin\" This event is free and open to the public! See flyer for complete schedule.

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Lecture - Outside Influences, In-Place Change: Weeden Island to Safety Harbor

Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center 1800 Weedon Dr NE

March 13, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM

Join the Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society for their monthly meeting and a lecture by archaeologist Dr. Jeffrey Mitchem. Description: For centuries, the Manasota/Weeden Island peoples along the Gulf coast lived a lifestyle that was well adapted to fishing, gathering, and hunting. They practiced rituals that included elaborately decorated pottery vessels, many made specifically for inclusion in burial mounds. Although we know few specifics about their beliefs, the distinctive pottery styles they created spread west along the Gulf Coastal Plain and into the Mississippi Valley. Beginning around A.D. 900, a change occurred across the Southeast, related to maize agriculture and possibly new religious and/or political beliefs. This Mississippian culture took hold in most of the Southeast, typically replacing earlier lifestyles. In the region between the Withlacoochee River and Charlotte Harbor, the Weeden Island/Manasota peoples resisted drastically changing their lifestyles, although they did adopt certain Mississippian traits, probably related primarily to religious and political beliefs. Archaeologists call this later culture Safety Harbor, and it was these people who met the Spanish expeditions of Pánfilo de Narváez and Hernando de Soto in the 1500s.

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