Event Details
Tuesday, Jan 5, 2016
SAAA Lecture: Late Archiac Mortuary Mound+Ecological Change at Tomoka
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Flagler Room, Flagler College
Description: The world was changing 5000-4500 years ago along the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida. People of the Mount Taylor culture who lived at the Tomoka Complex were constructing mortuary mounds of earth on top of mounds of shell as did their cousins in the St. Johns River Valley did for nearly a half a millennium before them. And then the world changed. This presentation summarizes and discusses the most recent findings of the Tomoka Archeology project in relation to this site’s history, daily life of its inhabitants, and in particular how the construction of sand mortuary mounds was impacted by ecological changes and the social transformations that are associated with it.
Jon Endonino is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University. His primary research interests are social and ecological conditions attending mortuary monument construction by Mount Taylor culture hunter-gatherers inhabiting the St. Johns River Valley and Atlantic coast of northeast Florida. In addition to Late Archaic mortuary monuments, Dr. Endonino also has a long-standing research in lithic sourcing and an organizational approach to analyzing and modelling lithic technology.
FPAN is co-hosting this event.
