Event Details

The Ancient Mound-Builders of Tomoka: Ecology, Interaction and Ritual

Time: 6:30 pm til 7:30 pm

Location: New Smyrna Museum of History

Description: Dr. Jon Endonino will present excavation and analyses results from Phase 2 of the Tomoka Archaeology project, which collected ecological data in order to determine the environmental conditions that existed when Mount Taylor hunter-gathers settled and constructed the mounds, earth- and shell-works, and the attending rituals during the Thornhill Lake phase (5600-4700 cal BP). Environmental data are combined with radiocarbon dates and analyses of artifacts in order to situate mound-building in time and in relation to other people across Florida and beyond.

Jon Endonino is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University. His primary research interests are social and ecological conditions related to mortuary monument construction by the culture archaeologists call Mount Taylor who inhabited 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 project in stone tool analysis and determining the sources of stone in Florida.

This event is free and open to the public.

FPAN is co-hosting this event.