The Garrison Neighborhood, established in 1896, was the first Black-owned neighborhood in Tampa. Until the 1940s the neighborhood flourished with Black-owned businesses, schools, and churches. Despite this, few mentions of the neighborhood exist in archaeological reports of the area.
New 3D Digital Studies on the Roman Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina (Sicily) Davide Tanasi, Department of History at the University of South Florida FEBRUARY 8, 2024 3D digitization for the study of archaeological heritage and the global dissemination of knowledge has proven to be extremely beneficial to the…
Sea Changes: The Current State of Submerged Paleolandscape Prospection and Assessments, Inside and Outside the Private Sector Dr. Jessica Cook Hale, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Archaeologists once assumed that submerged, formerly terrestrial components of the shallow continental shelf retained little to no evidence of human occupations drowned by…
Sticks of Fire: Toponymic Imaginaries in Tampa Bay Dr. Thomas Pluckhahn, University of South Florida It is a story repeated so often as to be widely accepted as fact: the city of Tampa—and, by extension, the eponymous estuary on which it is located—take their names from a word for “sticks…
Four Years and Two Shipwrecks in LaSoye Bay, Dominica Marie Meranda Doctoral Candidate (Anthropology), University of South Florida Maritime archaeology work began in LaSoye Bay in 2019 as a dissertation project to complement research on a settlement discovered on LaSoye’s shore during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2016. Over…
Climate Change and Cultural Sites in Florida Rachael Kangas, M.A. Director of the West Central and Central Regions, Florida Public Archaeology Network How do we protect cemeteries, historic buildings, and archaeological sites that are threatened by climate change in Florida? How is it decided which sites get attention and which…
The Sarabay Project: UNF excavations have exposed activity areas, pits, hearths, and buildings remains in the center of the Mocama town of Sarabay. Learn more about this ongoing project.