Event Details
Thursday, Sep 15, 2016
Archaeology Lecture Series - Florida’s Dugout Canoes
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, 1800 Weedon Dr NE, St Pete
Description: Florida is home to the largest density of prehistoric watercraft in the world. Archaeologists have been puzzled by Florida’s dense canoe clusters, such as the 100 dugouts found at Newnan’s Lake near Gainesville. Hypotheses to explain the general concentration of canoes in Florida’s North-central Highlands have been proposed but not fully accepted. I present a new model, which simultaneously explains the large numbers of canoes at Newnan’s and in the North-central Highlands. The canoe caching model relies on spatial patterns and ethnohistoric documents as evidence that groups cached canoes at the ends of waterways for later use. If it proves to be valid through testing, the model has the potential to help archaeologists locate and protect ancient canoes.
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Archaeology Talk: Recent Research at the Blueberry Archaeology Site
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: South Florida State College (SFSC), Building B, Room 112, Avon Park, Florida
Description: Kissimmee Valley Archaeological and Historical Conservancy Lecture Series - Recent Research at the Blueberry Archaeology Site by David Butler, Ph.D., RPA
David Butler, the Principal Investigator at the Blueberry Archaeological Site in Highlands County since August 2005, will be the speaker for the first lecture of the year. He will be bringing an update on recent research at the site. This talk will include information related to an update on his shell tool paper he gave last year at the Annual Florida Anthropological Society Meeting, and an update related to the confirmation of Mound B at Blueberry. He will highlight the importance of our most recent units, TU 7&8.
Please call Anne Reynolds, 863-840-3995 if you have any questions about the first Kissimmee Valley Archaeological and Historical Conservancy meeting.
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