Our executive board will be working with art history, classics, and anthropology departments to plan an outreach event on University of Florida campus. This event will coincide with our national lecture and may also include a "membership drive".
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Despite more than 100 years of archaeological research on the North Coast of Peru, very little is known about the transition from the so-called Moche society into the Chimu empire. This timeframe, CIRCA A.D. 850-1000/1050, is poorly understood not only in the North Coast of Peru, but more broadly all over the Central Andean Region. […]
Recent survey of a tract of public land on Lake Pithlachocco in Alachua County, Florida revealed an 8,000-year record of horizontal stratigraphy extending 500m from and 5m above the modern lake shore. The first half of this record reflects the mid-Holocene expansion of surface water regionally, but the second half reflects a regime of low-frequency, […]
Capidava was a Roman and Byzantine fort on the Lower Danube. Although the object of extensive archaeological study, the living conditions of the soldiers stationed there in the 6th and the 11th century have never been examined in a detailed, comparative mode. In both centuries, the population inside the fort included both women and children, […]
Lecturer: Dr. Eleni Bozia Associate Professor, Department of Classics Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group University of Florida Archaeology, epigraphy, and heritage sites point to and recall the past, and reasonably so. People usually turn to them for Instagram photos or contemplate on them because they are told that "history may not repeat itself, […]
Lecturer: Dr. Susan Gillespie Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida In 1942 and 1943, excavations revealed fabulous buried deposits of jade and other precious items in a very unexpected place: La Venta on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast, an area of swamps and tropical forest. These finds produced an “ecstatic” reaction in the world of archaeology […]
Lecturer: Dr. Charles Cobb Lockwood Chair in Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History 2025 UF Research Foundation Professor Over the last decade, research by a collaboration of archaeologists has made considerable strides toward identifying sites visited by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto’s army in the American Southeast (A.D. 1539-1543). In addition to […]
