Members of the Friends of Randell Research Center are invited to join us in the classroom of the Calusa Heritage Trail on Friday, January 31^st at 11am to hear Dr. Neill Wallis speak about, “The rise and fall of Florida’s earliest civic-ceremonial centers (northern Gulf coast, 200-1000 CE).” 

RSVP Required – Members, please email RRC-RSVP@Florida Museum.ufl.edu to register.

Neill Wallis is curator of Florida Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, and the Ceramic Technology Laboratory at the Florida Museum, University of Florida. For more than 20 years, his research has focused on the histories of ancient Indigenous village communities of Florida and the regional social networks that connected them to each other and the American Southeast. This work includes investigations of human-environment interactions, monumentality and the built environment, feasting, iconography, and the production, distribution, and use of pottery.