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SUMMARY:The Elk Ridge Community in the Mimbres Pueblo World
DESCRIPTION:Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-elk-ridge-community-in-the-mimbres-pueblo-world/
LOCATION:University of Florida\, Smathers Library Room 100\, 1508 Union Rd\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260217T170000
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SUMMARY:Soto’s Stuff: Spanish 16th Century Expeditions and What They Left Behind
DESCRIPTION:Lecturer: Dr. Charles Cobb\nLockwood Chair in Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History\n2025 UF Research Foundation Professor \nOver 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 delineating the route traveled by Soto\, our working group has now amassed a substantial sample of European metal objects recovered from Indigenous villages. This presentation provides new insights on the Soto route and on how the related artifacts shed light on patterns of discard\, trade\, and the ways in which Indigenous societies reshaped European material culture.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/sotos-stuff-spanish-16th-century-expeditions-and-what-they-left-behind/
LOCATION:University of Florida\, Smathers Library Room 100\, 1508 Union Rd\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112957
CREATED:20251222T180923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251222T180923Z
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SUMMARY:The Ecstasy and the Agony:Excavations at La Venta\, Mexico\, an Olmec Capital
DESCRIPTION:Lecturer: Dr. Susan Gillespie\nProfessor of Anthropology\, University of Florida \nIn 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 and shed light on the Olmecs\, a mysterious early civilization in Mesoamerica (c. 1150-400 BC). Subsequent fieldwork in 1955 revealed even more astonishing discoveries: tons of jade and other greenstone objects recovered at an “agonizing” cost. The archaeologists encountered tremendous problems excavating La Venta. The site was already suffering damage by development\, and subsequent looting destroyed much of what was left. The story of the ecstasy and agony of La Venta’s excavations is reconstructed through archival archaeology\, analyzing the field records\, maps\, and photographs.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-ecstasy-and-the-agonyexcavations-at-la-venta-mexico-an-olmec-capital/
LOCATION:University of Florida\, Smathers Library Room 100\, 1508 Union Rd\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T170000
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SUMMARY:Seeing the Past Anew: The Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology’s Toolkit for Accessible 3D Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Lecturer: Dr. Eleni Bozia\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Classics\nHead of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group\nUniversity of Florida \nArchaeology\, 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\, but it does rhyme.” However\, in reality\, there is still a large disconnect between the past and the present\, the value of one for the other\, and overall\, the purpose of sustaining\, supporting\, and engaging with these fields and their objects of interest. This talk will traverse the history of digital preservation and dissemination\, and digital world heritage through the lens of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology project to emphasize that nothing is more urgent for the present than the past\, and how technology and AI can bring archaeology and epigraphy to a new\, more responsible ecosystem of valued knowledge. Ultimately\, this talk advocates for a future in which the digital humanities not only preserve the traces of antiquity but also empower new ways of engaging with them\, transforming the past into a living\, collaborative resource for global society.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/seeing-the-past-anew-the-digital-epigraphy-and-archaeologys-toolkit-for-accessible-3d-heritage/
LOCATION:University of Florida\,  Library West\, Room 212\, 400 SW 13th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32601\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T170000
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SUMMARY:Life in a Garrison of the Imperial Frontieron the Lower Danube in the 6th and 11th centuries
DESCRIPTION: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\, as indicated by jewelry and skeletal material in the cemetery. The most important provisions supplied by the state were olive oil and wine\, both transported from afar in amphorae. There are also clear signs of self-sufficient behavior\, particularly of stock breeding and hunting. Very few weapons have been found in Capidava. However\, there are clear signs of religious activity and personal devotion.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/life-in-a-garrison-of-the-imperial-frontieron-the-lower-danube-in-the-6th-and-11th-centuries/
LOCATION:University of Florida\,  Library West\, Room 212\, 400 SW 13th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32601\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
GEO:29.6481619;-82.3397234
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250929T130956Z
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SUMMARY:Water Histories: How 8\,000 Years of Fluctuating Lake Levels in North-Central Florida Affected Indigenous Land Use and Regional Interactions
DESCRIPTION: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\, high-magnitude flooding to which lakeside dwellers adapted their land use. Besides affecting settlement choices\, fluctuating surface water impacted the potential of regional travel by boat\, connecting Lake Pithlachocco to places far afield during extreme hydroperiods and stranding it from flow during extreme droughts.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/water-histories-how-8000-years-of-fluctuating-lake-levels-in-north-central-florida-affected-indigenous-land-use-and-regional-interactions/
LOCATION:University of Florida\, Smathers Library Room 100\, 1508 Union Rd\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,International Archaeology Day
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
GEO:29.6509391;-82.3417641
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T190000
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SUMMARY:The Missing Link: A Wari-Related Burial in Huanchaco\, North Coast of Peru
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. Current models explain this period of time as a moment of political\, economic\, and militaristic control of the Wari Society. \nThis southern highland group has expanded as a well-organized state-like formation. Indeed\, some scholars suggest that it may be the first Andean empire\, and current models also suggest alternative scenarios. The recent burial in Huanchaco provides insight into the behavior of lower elites following the collapse of the Moche society and its transition into the Chimu Empire\, highlighting the persistence of religious and artistic traditions from earlier times\, as well as the innovations introduced from the highlands to the coast.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-missing-link-a-wari-related-burial-in-huanchaco-north-coast-of-peru/
LOCATION:University of Florida\,  Library West\, Room 212\, 400 SW 13th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32601\, United States
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day,Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112957
CREATED:20241010T190317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T190317Z
UID:10007328-1729708200-1729711800@www.archaeological.org
SUMMARY:Africans\, Europeans\, and Finding Castle Cormantine: Archaeology and Cultural Entanglement on the 17th Century Gold Coast
DESCRIPTION:Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/africans-europeans-and-finding-castle-cormantine-archaeology-and-cultural-entanglement-on-the-17th-century-gold-coast-3/
LOCATION:Smathers Library\, Room 100\, University of Florida\, Union Road\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
GEO:29.6509391;-82.3417856
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112957
CREATED:20240913T172946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T172946Z
UID:10007200-1729684800-1729702800@www.archaeological.org
SUMMARY:International Archaeology Day
DESCRIPTION: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”.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/international-archaeology-day/
LOCATION:University of Florida\, 201 Criser Hall\, PO Box 114000\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611-4000\, United States
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McAninch":MAILTO:ArtzySmartzy@ufl.edu
GEO:29.6483104;-82.3397707
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