All presentations are on a Wednesday at 7:00 pm.
JANUARY 18, 2023 AT FT. MYERS, IMAG MUSEUM
Dr. Uzi Baram, Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the New College Public Archaeology Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Baram will speak regarding his excavations, The Excavation of Angola: A Maroon Settlement on the Manatee River in Bradenton, FL.
FEBRUARY 15, 2023 AT FT. MYERS, IMAG MUSEUM
Dr. Maranda Kles, RPA, Vice President of Archaeological Consultants in Sarasota, FL, specialized in Southeastern Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and Bioarchaeology.
Dr. Kles will speak on the prehistory of the Indigenous south Florida people, the Calusa, and their known relations with their historical native neighbors. The usage of the region by Cuban fishermen that set up fishing camps called ‘rancheros’ after the Calusa abandoned the region, the eventual settlement by whites, the historical military settlement of Ft. Myers, that gave the city its name, and its relationship to the military network of Florida.
MARCH 15, 2023 AT FT. MYERS, IMAG MUSEUM
Tina Marie Osceola, Director, Seminole Tribe of Florida (STOF), Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO); Dominique DeBeaubien, Collections Manager/NAGPRA Coordinator, STOF THPO; Samantha Wade, Sr. Bioarchaeologist, STOF THPO #NoMoreStolenAncestors: The Seminole Tribe of Florida's Repatriation Efforts. Repatriation of Native American artifacts from archaeological sites and current archaeological projects that are being investigated.
APRIL 19, 2023 AT NAPLES, COLLIER COUNTY MUSEUM
Steve Bertone, Research Biologist with the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Naples, FL. Steve has conducted biological research and worked on several archaeological projects in the Reserve and the 10,000 Islands. He will be speaking about the early settlers in the NERR.
