Event Details

Volunteer Archaeology Lab

Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm

Location: Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, 1800 Weedon Dr NE, St Pete

Description: Ever wonder what archaeologists do with all that stuff they dig up at archaeological sites once the fieldwork is finished? At the FPAN Volunteer Lab, you can come find out for yourself! Learn all about how artifacts and other archaeological material get processed in the laboratory so that we can use them to learn about the past. You will get the chance to sort through, identify, and wash artifacts and other material from real archaeological sites!
All ages are welcome to participate or observe, children 12 and under should be accompanied by an adult.

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Archaeology on Tap

Time: 5:00 pm til 6:00 pm

Location: Gaspar's Patio, 8448 North 56th Street, Temple Terrace, FL 33617

Description: Our next Archaeology on Tap speaker is going to be University of South Florida graduate student Christine Bergmann.

Christine Bergmann is a graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program at the University of South Florida. She will be giving an informal talk about her recent research trip to southern Peru. The talk will highlight the elemental analysis of archaeological human bones for paleodietary reconstruction and the creation of a calibration for portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.

FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.

Before Jamestown: Europeans, Africans, and Indians in La Florida

Time: 7:00 pm til 8:30 pm

Location: Sarasota Garden Club Great Hall, 1131 Blvd of the Arts Sarasota, FL 34236

Description:
Friends of Sarasota County History Center Lecture by Dr. Michael Francis

This presentation explores the early history of European settlement efforts in Florida. Learn about the remarkably rich, yet much neglected history of colonization in the US southeast in the 16th Century, a process that began almost a century before Jamestown. This presentation will give the audience an excellent background to understand our rich Spanish history as we approach Florida’s 2013 quincentennial celebration of Juan Ponce De Leon’s landing in 1513.

Dr. Michael Francis received his PhD in History in 1998 from the University of Cambridge. Between 1997 and 2012, Dr. Francis taught at the University of North Florida, where he also served briefly as Chair of the Department of History. He has taught and written extensively on colonial Florida and Latin America. In 2011, US Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, appointed Dr. Francis to serve on the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission.

This event is FREE, please see link below to register or for more information

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