New Research for Florida Museum Legacy Collections

Saturday, May 11, 8:20 – 11:40am Sable AB

Increasingly, archaeological projects incorporate museum-based legacy collections with current methodologies and theoretical approaches. Rather than relying solely upon new excavations, research with museum holdings stimulates innovation and informs fieldwork. Given the FAM 2019 theme of collections accessibility and interpretation, coupled with the FAS 2019 return to the renowned Crystal River site after 50 years, we propose revisiting extant archaeological data from various collections within the Museum’s holdings through reanalysis, re-excavation, and reinterpretation. In this session, the authors address an array of topics with new eyes, “tool kits” and perspectives. The papers demonstrate that legacy collections maintain great value and should not be relegated to warehouses. Instead, they are dynamic resources that can and should be used to advance our understanding and reconstruction of Florida’s cultural heritage as well as aid future fieldwork

8:20 – 8:40 Lindsay Bloch Pottery Type Collections and the Genealogy of Naming

8:40 – 9:00 Elise LeCompte The Paper Chase: Legacy Collections’ Records

9:00 – 9:20 Ellen Lofaro, Laura VanVoorhis, Neill J. Wallis, and Donna L. Ruhl Legacy Collections and Bioarchaeology

9:20 – 9:40 Donna L. Ruhl Archaeobotanical Legacy Collections Come of Age ~ from Carbonized Seeds to Waterlogged Canoes

9:40 – 10:00 MORNING BREAK

10:00 – 10:20 Trevor C. Duke, Neill J. Wallis, and Ann S. Cordell Fragmented Pots, Enchained Histories: Assessing Lower Southeastern Social Connections through Petrographic Analysis

10:20 – 10:40 Mark Donop Fragmented and Forgotten: Pots, People, and Palmetto Mound (8LV2)

10:40 – 11:00 Neill J. Wallis and Paulette McFadden Fifty Years of FLMNH Research at the Garden Patch Site

11:00 – 11:20 Kassie Kemp Mixing Tempers: Connecting Communities at Crystal River

11:20 – 11:40 Amanda Hall and Ann S. Cordell The Mystery of the Lamar-like Clay Balls