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International Archaeology Day Event at the St. Augustine Lighthouse

Time: 10:00 am til 4:00 pm

Location: St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum

Description: Meet archaeologists at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum on October 20 to discover history and mystery of local shipwrecks and honor International Archaeology Day.

From 10 AM to 2 PM, Lighthouse archaeologists will have a display of artifacts in the Maritime Archaeology and Education Center located on the museum site.

At 2 PM, join us for a presentation by Emily Jane Murray, archaeologist with the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) as she showcases discovery and preservation of the Heritage Monitoring Scouts program, an innovative initiative brought to us by FPAN. The title of the talk is “Climate Change, Site Stewardship and You.”

Immediately following the presentation, join us in unveiling a state marker for the historic lighthouses of St. Augustine near the Lighthouse Boat Ramp. A special project of the St. Augustine Archaeological Association, this marker commemorates the various beacons that have stood sentinel over our coast and protected St. Augustine. The ceremony will begin promptly at 3 PM.

Programming at the museum is free with regular admission fees to the Museum. The marker unveiling ceremony is free and open to the public.

FPAN is co-hosting this event.

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AIA Lecture: Sea Level Rise Among the Ancients

Time: 12:00 pm til 3:00 pm

Location: Beaches Museum and History Park

Description: Sea-Level Rise Among the Ancients: Results of the First Decade of the Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey, Presented by Dr. Kenneth Sassaman

The material record of coastal living along the northern Gulf Coast of Florida continues to be overcome by the water of rising sea. Encoded in this record are clues to the ways that people and ecosystems responded to sea-level rise over millennia. Since 2009, the Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey of the University of Florida has been working to salvage vulnerable sites while developing information relevant to future challenges with environmental and social change. The social networks created and maintained by annual cycles of gathering enabled coastal communities to relocate landward to places of lesser vulnerability when synchronization among earth, water, and sky was disrupted by events, like shoreline retreat, beyond the social memory of generational or century scale experience. Lessons for our own future with rising sea await our attention in the archaeological record of ancient coastal dwelling.

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