September 2021 Lecture: The Ancient Mound-Builders of Tomoka: Ecology, Migration, and Ritual

CGCAS September Lecture: The Ancient Mound-Builders of Tomoka: Ecology, Migration, and Ritual

Jon Endonino, Ph.D., Eastern Kentucky University

Dr. Endonino will present excavation and analyses results from Phase 2 of the Tomoka Archaeology project where ecological data was collected in order to determine the environmental conditions that existed when Mount Taylor hunter-gathers settled and constructed the mounds, earth- and shell-works, and the attending rituals during the Thornhill Lake phase (5600-4700 cal BP). Environmental data are combined with radiocarbon dates and analyses of artifacts in order to situate mound-building in time and in relation to other people across Florida and beyond.
This monthly CGCAS Archaeology Lecture series is co-sponsored by the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE).