SWFAS was founded in 1980 to provide a meeting place for people interested in the southwest Florida area's archaeology, history and cultural past.

SWFAS SCHEDULE 2026
No lecture presentations JUNE – OCTOBER, but newsletters will be distributed each month. See below. 

NOVEMBER 18, 2026, 7:00 PM, BONITA SPRINGS FIRE STATION 24
Lecturer: Steve Koski Presentation: TBA
Note that all SWFAS presentations are free to the public

DECEMBER 5 OR 12, 2026 Field Trip: TBA

2026 SWFAS NEWSLETTERS

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The Volume 78, Number 2, June 2025, pp97-122, issue of The Florida Anthropologist has an article by John Beriault and Bob Carr about the Bonita Bay Complex in southern Lee County. This is a 30-site complex that SWFAS was an active participant in identifying, recording, sampling, and excavation of many of these sites, and the Craighead Lab processed much of the excavated material. SWFAS also published the results of several of these sites. These early days of SWFAS was a very busy time for salvage archaeology, and the article describes the historical involvement of SWFAS during its early days.

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