Events
Beyond our Backyard: Archaeology around the World Lecture Series
UWF Downtown Campus, Bowden Building Classroom 120 Church Street
March 19, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
In celebration of Florida Archaeology Month, March 2015, join us for the \"Beyond our Backyard: Archaeology around the World\" lecture series! This presentation is on \"Vehicles of an Unending Exodus: An Examination of Cuban Rafts at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay\" by UWF Division of Anthropology and Archaeology graduate student Zach Harris. This event is free and open to the public! See flyer for complete schedule.
Lecture - Early Safety Harbor Communities at Weedon Island
Weedon Island Preserve 1800 Weedon Dr NE
March 19, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
Recent excavations at Weedon Island have uncovered substantial early Safety Harbor-period deposits, dating between A.D.1000-1200. There is evidence that during the Safety Harbor period, people in the Tampa Bay area reorganized themselves socially and politically. Platform mounds were constructed that may have helped to structure new forms of interaction between and across communities. However, few archaeological sites have revealed evidence of daily life activities like those are being uncovered at Weedon Island. The preliminary results of recent fieldwork will be presented by Christina Perry Sampson, Ph.D, and contextualized in terms of local social organization and participation in regional processes.
Prehistoric Ceramic Technology and Social Identities in \"Transitional\" East-Central Florida
Winter Park Towers 1111 South Lakemont Ave
March 19, 07:00:00 PM — 08:00:00 PM
This presentation will focus on the analysis of ceramics recovered form recent archaeological investigations at Fox Lake Sanctuary (FLS) in Titusville, Brevard County, Florida. FLS serves as a case study of prehistoric habitation in the Indian River Region, an area that has traditionally been characterized as a \"transitional zone\" peripheral to the more well-known St. Johns Cultural Area, mainly due to the presence of St. Johns pottery. Drawing from diverse and current theoretical approaches in anthropology, this research aims to move forward from conventional Culture-Historical interpretation and examine the social identities and cultural affiliations of prehistoric potters who lived at FLS during the Malabar Period (ca. 500 BC - AD 1565). The ceramic assemblage from FLS is compared with that of two nearby sites from the St. Johns and Indian River regions in order to determine if the pottery present at each site is similar, or if the different cultural backgrounds of the potters manifest in the production sequence of St. Johns pottery. David J. Birnbaum is currently field supervisor for archaeological work at Avon Park Air Force Range in south-central Florida. He received his Bachelor\'s in Anthropology from UCF and his Masters\' in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.