Event Details
Thursday, Sep 20, 2012
Meet the Curator at Historic Spanish Point
Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm
Location: Historic Spanish Point, 337 N. Tamiami Trail Osprey, FL 34229
Description: Learn about the prehistoric people who called Little Sarasota Bay their home for over 4,000 years by meeting our Curator in "A Window to the Past" exhibition 10am – noon. View some recently found artifacts and see the only exhibition of its kind in the world built inside of an ancient shell mound.
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History Book Group
Time: 10:30 am til 11:30 am
Location: Tampa Bay History Center, 801 Old Water Street, Tampa
Description: Review and discussion of Cafe Con Leche presented by author Dr. Jack Fernandez.
When: Sept. 20, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Where: TBHC Classroom
Cost: Free & open to the public
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Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective
Time: 5:30 pm til 7:00 pm
Location: USF Tampa CWY 109, 4202 E Fowler Ave.
Description: As part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Lecture Program, Dr. James M. Adovasio of Mercyhurst University will be coming to USF! This Renner Lecture is cosponsored by the Tampa Bay chapter of the AIA and the USF Anthropology Club.
Summary of the lecture:
On October 11, 1492, the soon-to-be-styled Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Cristoforo Colon, landed on San Salvador and almost immediately encountered its aboriginal inhabitants, the soon-to-be-extirpated Taino. He, either directly or more likely through the medium of his crew, posed a series of questions which in one way or another have been asked ever since: Who are these people; Where did they come from; How did they get here; and perhaps most vexatiously, When did they arrive? Discoveries at Folsom, New Mexico in 1926 indicated that the First Americans were contemporaries with now extinct Ice Age fauna and subsequent discoveries at Black Water Draw demonstrated a human presence at least 11,500 radiocarbon years ago. Since that time, more than 500 archaeological sites have been claimed to be older than the widespread Clovis horizon, though very few of them have stood up to scientific scrutiny.
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Archaeology Lecture: The Bioarchaeology of Promtin Tai (Thailand)
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Weedon Island Preserve, 1800 Weedon Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33702
Description: Promtin Tai is a multi-component site in central Thailand occupied during the late prehistoric and historic periods. This presentation by Dr. Scott Burnett of Eckerd College will describe recent excavation seasons at the site and our 2012 bioarchaeological examination of the Iron Age burials, including both skeletal and dental indicators of health and disease. Preliminary paleopathological analysis has revealed evidence of dental caries, trauma, cribra orbitalia, and minor developmental anomalies. The implications of these pathologies and their frequency within the sample will be discussed. This program is sponsored inpart by the Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society. Free. Registration is requested.
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Lecture, Archaeology Beneath Ybor City
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Building G, Room 102, South Florida State College, 600 West College Drive Avon Park, FL
Description: Archaeologist Rebecca O’Sullivan presents “Archaeology Beneath Ybor City,” during the Kissimmee Valley Archaeological and Historical Conservancy’s speaker series on Thursday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m., in Building G, Room 102, South Florida State College Highlands Campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.
The archaeology beneath Ybor City today can tell us even more about the people who founded and lived in this bustling and unique cigar town. This summer, staff and volunteers from the West Central Regional Center of the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) conducted archaeological investigations at the Ybor City Museum State Park, located on 9th Avenue and 19th Street in Ybor City (Tampa). The city block was once the home of many cigar factory and related industry workers and their families. O’Sullivan will cover the background of this particular lot and the current work to connect the small forgotten things recovered during excavations to the people of Ybor City’s past and present.
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