Event Details
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014
Lecture by Mario Ferrante: Spanish Culture and Archaeology
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Deering Estate
Description: The Archaeology Society of Southern Florida is hosting an upcoming lecture Mario Ferrante. Head to the Deering Estate Auditorium in Miami to attend this informative and intriguing presentation.
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Atlantic Ais in the Late Seventeenth Century
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:30 pm
Location: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus, Room ED 119
Description: The Ais and other Native Americans of Florida's east coast expertly exploited their local riverine and marine environment. From this maritime adaptation, they honed various aquatic skills, including adept swimming and skillful diving. Such expertise, however, did not go unnoticed by the coming Europeans. In the 1680s, for example, English and French buccaneers raided the Florida coast to acquire indigenous divers to work a sunken Spanish treasure ship in the Bahamas. Using this captive labor force, the buccaneers and Bahamians, along with wreckers from as far as New York, New England, Jamaica, and Barbados, quickly salvaged the wreck's silver cargo. They subsequently sold the surviving field of the "Red" Atlantic and the Atlantic slave trade, and using a variety of English and Spanish documents, Peter thus examines the Atlantic Ais in the late seventeenth century/
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