Event Details
Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017
Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS Florida)
Time: 10:30 am til 11:30 am
Location: Ponce Inlet Town Hall
Description: Worldwide heritage sites are at risk from impacts due to climate change: erosion, sea level rise, and major storms to name just a few. HMS Florida is a public engagement program that focuses on tracking changes to archaeological sites over time. This presentation will provide context for climate change issues in Florida, discuss how those changes impact archaeological sites, and lets the public know what they can do to help heritage at risk.
FPAN is co-hosting this event.
SAAA Lecture: 9000 of Human Experience on the St. Johns River
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Kenan 300, Flagler College
Description: From the pond burials of 9,000 years ago to the platform mounds at the eve of Spanish contact, the indigenous people of the St. Johns River valley inscribed their histories in water, shell, stone, bone, and earth. In the context of environmental change—most notably rising sea and flooded land—the archaeological traces of this ancient past reveal tremendous resilience to disruptions in everyday life. However, relationships between people and the river were inflected not only by the vagaries of nature, but also by an ever-accumulating material reality of cemeteries, mounds, and middens. The river, it would seem, carried far more than water from its headwaters to the sea. It also carried history and meaning for those whose ancestors intervened against environmental change to ensure that life on the river would carry on.
Dr. Kenneth E. Sassaman is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology and heads the Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology at the University of Florida.
FPAN is co-hosting this event.
