*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
As South Florida faces sea-level rise, increased hurricane strength, fires, and other impacts from modern anthropogenic climate change, what messages can we learn from the eons of human use and occupation of the area? This session is dedicated to resiliency in South Florida as revealed through archaeological research. How do we define resiliency? How can the archaeological record inform modern efforts at adaptation? This session includes research that focuses on the ability of past groups in South Florida to adapt to shifting resources, face the aftermath of hurricanes, build and modify their environments to exist during rapid fluctuations in sea-level rise, and thrive by exploiting natural resources in the South Florida environment. Given the unprecedented amount of new archaeological research focused on early Florida contexts, the time is right to draw together concrete examples from specific case studies as well as synthesize the long history of climate resilience that could have relevance to contemporary climate-based challenges.
Other Keywords
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Zooarchaeology •
Woodland •
Florida •
Coastal and Island Archaeology •
Environment and Climate •
Cultural Heritage and Preservation •
public architecture •
Paleoethnobotany •
Public Archaeology
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United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Delaware (State / Territory) •
Georgia (State / Territory) •
Mississippi (State / Territory) •
Tennessee (State / Territory) •
North Carolina (State / Territory) •
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Agriculture Is Not Inevitable: Lessons in Foodways from Precolumbian South Florida (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Some scholars have argued that the adoption of agriculture is inevitable and that Holocene climate changes forced complex societies around the world to domesticate plants and animals. But the complex cultures of precolumbian south Florida provide a rare example of persistent reliance on wild...
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Building a Case for Resilience: A Call to Action (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. South Florida contains a vast record of over 10,000 years of human occupation. The archaeological timeline of the area has the capability to demonstrate human adaptation to rapid climate change in the past during the transition from the Younger Dryas to the Holocene. As archaeologists, we have a...
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Climate-Induced Hurricane Risks and Heritage Preservation in Southwest Florida: A Case Study of Hurricane Ian's Impact on Pineland Archaeological Site Complex (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change is intensifying hurricanes, posing increased disaster risks. These risks encompass various factors, from physical to attitudinal, magnifying their impact. Hurricane Ian's impact on Southwest Florida in September 2022 underlines these challenges, particularly for archaeological...
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Disaster Survey and Documentation of Southwest Florida Archaeological Site Damage from Hurricane Ian (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Accelerating shifts in climate and extreme weather events such as hurricanes threaten archaeological sites, especially in coastal regions which contain some of the most vulnerable forms of cultural heritage. As such, coastal archaeological sites provide exemplary locations for 1) the rapid study...
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From Fontaneda to Archie Carr: Sea Turtle Zooarchaeology and Conservation in Southeast Florida (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In southeast Florida, sea turtles (Chelonioidea) are both a major focus of conservation efforts and a hallmark of local zooarchaeological assemblages. Despite this abundance however, little work to date has been done to connect these archaeological turtle remains to contemporary sea turtle...
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High-Resolution Paleoenvironmental Shell Proxy Data: Implications for South Florida and Beyond (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present exploratory analyses of subannual environmental proxy data from a variety of freshwater, estuarine, and marine mollusk species from South Florida and the broader US Southeast. Using modern baseline specimens as well as specimens from archaeological contexts analyzed via microscopy and...
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A History of Archaeology on Key West (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The island of Key West has a rich and fascinating history as the “southernmost point” of the continental United States. Because of its strategic and iconic location, Key West is the most heavily developed and altered island in the Florida Keys. Despite the island’s infamy and storied past,...
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Squaring the Circle: Public Architecture of Fort Center and the Resiliency of Community (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the southern Florida interior, Fort Center is most widely known for its monumental architecture and 2,000-plus years of occupation within a dynamic, and at times unpredictable, landscape. In this paper I discuss how peoples’ early investment in communal architecture played a role in...