Event Details
Wednesday, Sep 17, 2014
The Calusa: Florida’s First Maritime People
Time: 3:00 pm til 4:00 pm
Location: Florida Maritime Museum, 4415 119th St W Cortez
Description: Learn about Florida’s first commercial fishermen, the Calusa. The Calusa were great boat builders, fishermen and traders before Columbus crossed the Atlantic. Find out what sort of boats they built and how they used them, who they traded with, who they fought and how they came to be the most powerful tribe in Southwest Florida at the time of contact. During the 30-minute talk we will look at where the Calusa came from, what made them unique, what happened to them when the Spanish arrived and where they might still be.
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Bioarchaeology of a Prehistoric Burial Mound from Sarasota
Time: 6:00 pm til 7:00 pm
Location: Selby Library, Second Street, Downtown Sarasota
Description: September Meeting of the Time Sifters Archaeology Society
Dr. Alison Elgart
Alison A. Elgart is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her interests focus on the health and disease of precolumbian Florida populations and dental anthropology of humans and non-human primates.
In this presentation, Dr. Elgart will provide information on small coastal pre-Columbian hunter-gatherer populations through the analysis of a salvage collection from the Yellow Bluffs Mound (8SO4) on Sarasota Bay, Florida. This burial mound was excavated in 1969, but the human remains were never fully analyzed. The goal of this project was to determine the minimum number of individuals (MNI), and to assess the health and demographics of the small coastal fishing population that interred their dead in the mound during the early middle of the Manasota Period (185-60 cal B.C.).
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