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Please note date change due to Election Day!Our speaker this month will be Star Cox, the Director of Archaeological Conservation at the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP)! She will be presenting her lecture, “Archaeological Conservation at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum!”
The St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum sponsors the maritime archaeology research program known as the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program or LAMP. LAMP’s shipwreck excavations and other underwater archaeological research activities are well known to many in the SAAA, but our members may be less acquainted with the laboratory work needed to stabilize and conserve the wide variety of waterlogged artifacts that have been recovered from St. Augustine waters. The Museum has a team of three full-time archaeological conservators who work in the “wet lab” facility on the Lighthouse grounds, and also work with the other LAMP archaeologists in the field. In this presentation, Director of Archaeological Conservation Starr Cox will discuss the variety of treatment processes needed for different archaeological materials and showcase some of the more interesting artifacts that have been conserved from underwater contexts in and around St. Augustine, as well as some terrestrial finds from the grounds of the Lighthouse itself.
Starr Cox joined the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum research team (LAMP) in March 2010. She earned her bachelor’s in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Kansas in 1997. In 2008, Cox received her master’s in nautical archaeology, as well as certificates in historical preservation and archaeological conservation, from Texas A&M University.
This event is co-sponsored by the Florida Public Archaeology Network and Flagler College. Meetings are held in the Tiffany Room at Flagler College.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tiffany Room at Flagler College, 74 King St, St Augustine, FL 32084-4342, United States,Saint Augustine, Florida
