The Elk Ridge Community in the Mimbres Pueblo World
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100
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University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States
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Soto’s Stuff: Spanish 16th Century Expeditions and What They Left Behind
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesLecturer: 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 […]
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The Ecstasy and the Agony:Excavations at La Venta, Mexico, an Olmec Capital
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesLecturer: 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 […]
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Water Histories: How 8,000 Years of Fluctuating Lake Levels in North-Central Florida Affected Indigenous Land Use and Regional Interactions
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesRecent 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, […]