Number 229 Sarah Bennett, Editor January 201 70th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society St. Petersburg, Florida May 11-13, 2018

2018 Annual Meeting $135 per night. Subject to availability, this rate The 70th Annual Meeting of the Florida is offered until April 10, 2018. To make a Anthropological Society (FAS) will take place reservation, please call the Bayfront Hilton at in St. Petersburg on May 11 – 13, 2018. The (727) 894-5000 and mention the FAS 2018 70th Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Annual Meeting. Research and Education (AWIARE) and the University of South Florida St. Petersburg The conference rate will be available to (USFSP) Anthropology Program are honored to attendees three days before and after the host this year’s events. The conference Annual Meeting. Consider extending your stay meetings, presentations, and the banquet will be to explore and enjoy the city of St. Petersburg. held on the beautiful harbor-side campus of USFSP. Registration Registration for the Annual Meeting is now Conference Hotel open. Please visit the FAS website to register. The Bayfront Hilton, located in the vibrant The general cost is $50 and the student rate is downtown area of St. Petersburg, is within $20 (students are required to upload a picture of walking distance of USFSP. The Bayfront their current student ID). These prices are Hilton has provided a special conference rate of effective until March 17, 2018. Registration .

In This Issue: 2017 Annual Meeting 1 Friday schedule 2 Saturday schedule 2-3 Call for Papers 4 Student Opportunities 4 Call for Book Donations 5 Florida Archaeology Month 5 Advocacy Alert 5 FAM posters will be distributed at the next FAS Board Meeting, which will occur on February 17th at Headquarters In Memoriam: Pat Griffin 6 Library Branch, 401 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL. Ancient Explorers Attached after this date will be accepted at an increased GOPHR Workshop rate ($60/$30 respectively). Turn YOUR Past to YOUR Advantage. Are you interested in enabling your local government On-site registration will be available at the and historical society to take charge of heritage Bayfront Hilton on Thursday (May 10th) from preservation in your community? The Florida 4:30 to 5:30. Look for an FAS information table Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) is holding in the hotel lobby, or ask about it at the front a workshop that might interest you. GOPHR desk. On-site registration will also be available workshop is a free program. Please RSVP to at the University Student Center (USC) at Tristan Harrenstein. USFSP on Friday (May 11th) between 12:00 – 4:30pm and at the same location on Saturday Friday Evening Reception (May 12th) between 7:30am – 12:00pm. On Friday evening (May 11th), the Welcome Reception and Florida Archaeological Council’s Parking: We are working on a reduced Stewards of Heritage Award Ceremony will take parking rate but, unfortunately, do not have it place from 6:00-8:00pm at 3 Daughters Brewery. available in time for this publication. Stay tuned The reception will include complimentary hors to the FAS Facebook page and conference d’oeuvres from The Tavern, beverages from 3 program for more information about near- Daughters, as well as a variety of games. campus parking on day of the conference. Transportation between the conference hotel and 3 Daughters Brewery will be provided. Friday Meetings and Workshop Friday meetings and workshop will be Saturday Presentations and Meetings located on USFSP campus. The schedule and Morning and afternoon paper and poster room assignments are as follows: presentations will take place at USFSP’s University Student Center in Ballrooms 1-3. FPAN Annual Board Meeting There are numerous restaurants featuring a Davis Hall 130 variety of cuisines located around the campus 8:00 – 12:00 and in downtown St. Petersburg, which is a short FAS Old Board Meeting distance away. Limited scheduled transportation Davis Hall 130 between the conference hotel and USFSP will be 12:30 – 2:30 provided upon request during registration. FAC Board Meeting The Chapter Representative workshop will USC Coral Room take place on Saturday. Time is to be determined. 1:30 – 2:30 Lunch will be provided. FAC General Meeting USC Coral Room The FAS Annual Business and New Board 2:30 – 3:30 Meetings will take place at the conclusion of Trail of Florida’s Indian Heritage conference papers and presentations, usually USC Coral Room between 4-5pm. A FAS member quorum is 3:30 – 4:30 needed! Take your chance at raffles and door prizes. We encourage everyone to attend this GOPHR workshop meeting! USC Ocean Room 3:30-4:30 Saturday Evening FAS Awards Banquet Sunday Morning Tours At the conclusion of the presentations and On Sunday morning, conference attendees will meetings, USFSP’s University Student Center’s have the option to choose between two guided ballrooms will transform into the banquet location. tours at local archaeological sites. The cost is $20 The event will feature a cocktail hour from 6:00- per person. Light refreshments will be provided. 7:00pm with hors d’oeuvres and beverages. The Space is limited, so sign up before they fill up! plated dinner will be served at 7:00pm with the following options: 9:00 am -- City of St. Petersburg Parks Sites -- limited to 28 people • Lemon Parmesan Chicken with a Four city parks within bustling St. Petersburg White Wine and Chive sauce are home to some well-known and interesting • Cheever Orzo and Basil archaeological remains. Join AWIARE board Stuffed Portobello Mushroom members and longtime FAS gurus, Bob Austin • Halibut Saltimbocca and Dave Burns, on guided tours of the Pinellas Point Mound, Maximo Beach Midden, All entrees include roasted asparagus, rosemary Abercrombie Park and Kutler Mound, and Jungle roasted potatoes, rolls, a house salad, cheesecake, Prada Mound and Midden Complex. This will be and coffee or tea. Additional beverage options will a driving tour from place to place to learn about be available at the cash bar. the archaeology and changes that have shaped each site, as well as the City of St Petersburg’s The FAS Awards Ceremony and Keynote current efforts to preserve and interpret these Presentation will take place following dinner. The important places. Transportation will be provided. banquet cost is $40 per person. Comfortable shoes suggested. Low to moderate walking expected. Tour buses will depart from the Banquet Keynote Speaker Conference Hotel. Limited to 28 persons. Dr. J. Michael Francis is the Hough Family Endowed Chair of Florida Studies at the University 9:00 am -- Weedon Island Archaeology Tour -- of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He will present on limited to 30 people the following: Are you curious about the archaeological research that has been going on at Weedon Island? “‘Not Even the Devil Could Read This’: If so, join us for a guided tour at the beautiful Rethinking Florida's Colonial History preserve. Individuals will meet at the Weedon Island Cultural and Natural History Center to in the Digital Age" view the Weedon Island canoe exhibit. The canoe is Florida’s longest pre-Columbian dugout canoe Abstract: In this keynote address, Dr. J. Michael and the only one recovered from a saltwater Francis will introduce a new initiative to create an environment. interactive digital archive dedicated to Florida’s rich and diverse colonial past. The project, entitled The tour will continue with a brief walk to the “La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the AWIARE research station to learn about the Americas,” will launch in March 2018. Dr. Francis organization and the current research being will discuss the project’s initial phase and its long- conducted. The tour will conclude after a term aim to create an interactive database that will moderate hike to a portion of the famous Weeden make Florida’s colonial history accessible to a Island site where AWIARE and the USFSP global audience. Anthropology program have been conducting excavations. The unearthed material suggests research that contributes to our understanding of this midden area was occupied during the Safety Florida’s cultural history. Harbor period. USFSP will be working at the site beginning Spring 2018 and will have new finds Contestants must register for the conference and to discuss. submit a copy of their paper by Friday, March 30, 2018. The written paper cannot exceed 2,500 Call for Symposia, Panel Discussions, words and must be typed and double-spaced. or Other Special Programs Students are required to make an oral There is still time to arrange symposia, panel presentation, drawn directly from their written discussion, or other special programs for the paper at the FAS annual meeting on Saturday, conference. Please submit a proposal to Rebecca May 12, 2018. Past first place winners of the O’Sullivan by Friday, February 16, 2018 if you student paper prize are not eligible. are interested. Judging criteria for student papers and oral Call for Papers and Posters presentations include quality of writing, overall presentation, quality of arguments and The Florida Anthropological Society invites supporting data, and overall contribution to our the submission of abstracts for paper and poster understanding of Florida’s cultural past and/or presentations at the 70th Annual Meeting in St. present. Prizes will be awarded during the Petersburg. We encourage submissions on a Saturday evening banquet. broad range of topics pertaining to Florida anthropology, archaeology, history, and other Email questions and student paper related disciplines. Paper and poster submissions to Rebecca O’Sullivan. presentations will occur on Saturday, May 12, 2018. FAS Dorothy Moore Student Grant An abstract of no more than 100 words is The Florida Anthropological Society is required from each presenter. Individuals may making available $500 to be awarded annually to submit only one paper or poster as first author archaeology students (B.A., M.A., or Ph.D.) who for consideration. All presenters must register are currently enrolled in a Florida university. The and pay the appropriate registration fee at the grant money will assist students conducting time they submit their abstract. A 20-minute time archaeological research in Florida. Grant funds limit for each paper presentation will be strictly can be used to cover the costs associated with enforced. archaeological fieldwork, special analyses (e.g., radiocarbon dates, faunal or botanical analyses, Conference registration and abstract soils analysis, etc.), and, in some cases, travel submission access is now available through the expenses associated with presenting a paper FAS website. The abstract deadline is Friday, based on the student’s research at a professional March 16, 2018. meeting.

Student Prize Competition Students interested in applying for the grant should submit a letter not to exceed two pages Undergraduate and graduate students that describes the project for which the funds are currently enrolled in degree granting collegiate being requested; what research question(s) or programs are encouraged to compete for a prize. problem(s) are being addressed; how the funds The student must submit a paper of original will be applied to these problems; what, if any, . additional funds will be used to accomplish the and document these fragile windows to the past research; and how the research will contribute to before they are completely lost. Archaeologists, Florida archaeology. The applicant should preservationists, and local communities are include a budget indicating the amount requested increasingly collaborating to protect these places and describing how the money will be spent by using high-tech tools and other time-tested along with a letter(s) of support from faculty. methods. The poster this year highlights various examples of projects that preserve historic and Applications for the 2018 award are now archaeological sites across the state of Florida. being accepted and can be sent to: Dr. Robert Austin, FAS Student Grant, 7224 Alafia Ridge The front of the poster features a digital Loop, Riverview, FL 33569 or via email to model of the Castillo de San Marcos created by [email protected]. Application deadline is University of South Florida Libraries' Digital March 31, 2018. Heritage and Humanities Collections. This iconic Florida site is vulnerable to sea level rise Annual Meeting Book Sale and storm surge. The National Park Service’s The Biennial Book Sale returns to the Annual Southeast Archeological Center, along with their Meeting this year. Please consider donating your partners, efforts to document and preserve the new or gently used books to the sale. All site have helped to protect it for years to come. proceeds are used to sustain the Dot Moore The final version of the poster will allow the Award. Donations will be accepted at the 70th public to link to and view an actual 3D model of Annual Meeting. the Castillo on their computer or device.

Contact Linda Geary with questions or to Another fun update for Florida Archaeology make other donation arrangements. Month this year is a revamp of the website. The new site will provide more information, sites to Florida Archaeology Month 2018 visit, and other great add-ons to explore. The Every year in March, Florida celebrates its final updated version will be up and running diverse heritage and buried (or submerged) past before March 2018. during Archaeology Month. FAS chapters, archaeologists, heritage professionals, museums, Advocacy Alert historical societies, and interested members of Florida’s 2018 legislative session is officially the public come together to promote and underway. The 2018 session will address at least celebrate archaeological sites and knowledge one legislative action related to Florida’s cultural about the past through events, workshops, resources. Representative Cyndi Stevenson is lectures, and public archaeology days. Another sponsoring House Bill 6041 and Senator Greg highlight during this month of archaeological Steube is sponsoring Senate Bill 1296, which, if celebration is the new poster, which is developed passed, would repeal "isolated finds" language every year to highlight a unique theme within from existing laws. Florida archaeology. Consider tracking these bills or joining the This year’s theme is “Heritage at Risk.” AAAN (Archaeology Advocacy Alert Network) Places that make Florida special are under threat. Facebook group for advocacy opportunities and Florida’s coastal heritage sites are disappearing bill updates. If you feel inclined, please call or due to storms, erosion, modern development, and write to legislators in order to formally express inundation. We must do what we can to preserve your stance. . In Memoriam A frequent speaker at Patricia Griffin, a founding member of the St SAAA meetings and the Augustine Archaeological Association and FAS Annual Meeting, Pat's SAAA's oldest member, passed away peacefully intelligence, humor and on New Year's Eve. She was also a founding graceful presence greatly member, along with her husband John, of FAS. added to our organizations The early organizational meeting took place in through the years. We miss August, 1947 at John's parents' home in Daytona her already. Beach. For more memories of Pat earned a doctorate in anthropology at the Dr. Patricia Griffin’s life University of Florida and wrote or edited and work, please visit the numerous articles and several books St. Augustine Record. including Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, The Odyssey of an African Slave: Sitiki and Fifty Years of Southeastern Board of Directors Archaeology: The Selected Works of John W. President: Jason Wenzel st Griffin. 1 Vice President: Emily Jane Murray 2nd Vice President: Rebecca O’Sullivan Although Pat and John and their 5 children Recording Secretary: Jon-Simon Suarez lived primarily in St Augustine, John’s position Membership Secretary: Pat Balanzategui as archaeologist with the State of Florida and the Treasurer: Joanne Talley National Park Service led to travels throughout Journal Editors: Ramie Gougeon the State and extended stays in Key West, Newsletter Editor: Sarah Bennett Directors: Jen Knutson Sebring, Tallahassee and Gainesville. Bob Gross Jim South Dr. Griffin served as President of the St Immediate Past President: Theresa Schober Augustine Historical Society and its Acting Director in 2001. She also served as Florida State University faculty. Information for Contributors The FAS Newsletter is published quarterly: In addition, Pat used her social work January, one month before the Annual Meeting, education (MSW at the University of Chicago) July, and October. Brief articles, chapter news, to assist with founding or development many and other items of interest are welcome for organizations that became fabric of the St. submission. The submission deadline for the Augustine community: Council on Aging, the next issue is March 11, 2018. Contact the editor, Betty Griffin House, the Tri-County Mental Sarah Bennett, 2615 Crestwood Avenue, New Health Services, the Unitarian Universalist Smyrna Beach, FL 32168; email Fellowship of St. Augustine, the Retired Senior [email protected]. Address Volunteer Program, and the Victims' Advocacy changes should be sent to FAS Membership Office of the St Johns County Sheriff's Secretary, Pat Balanzategui, P.O. Box 1135, St. Department. Augustine, FL 32085-1135. .

A FAS Membership Information and the FAS Newsletter. Visit www.fasweb.org The Florida Anthropological Society (FAS) is to learn more. Dues are: Regular and open to person interested in anthropology, Institutional -- $30; Family -- $35; Student (with archaeology, preservation of cultural resources, a valid ID) -- $15; Sustaining -- $100; Patron -- and community education. FAS members receive $1,000; Benefactor – $2,500 or more. Please add the Society’s journal, Florida Anthropologist, $25 for foreign addresses. .

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