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***Please note that the time, day, venue, and registration of this event is not the same as regularly scheduled SAAA member meetings***This event is free, but attendees must RSVP by October 21st and be up-to-date on SAAA membership dues to attend. Registration will be limited to 50 people.
Our November meeting will be moved to Wednesday, November 4 for a special meeting held in the Virginia Room at Flagler College, co-hosted with Flagler College’s Lifelong Learning. In celebration of SAAA’s 40th anniversary, prior to the meeting, at 6:30, we will be having a celebration with light appetizers and wine, beer, and soda.
Dr. Deagan will be presenting, “St. Augustine Archaeology in Retrospect: How we evolved from 1930 to 2026.” St. Augustine has one of the longest histories of professional archaeological research in the country. From the 1930’s to the present day, dozens of individuals, agencies and organizations have undertaken archaeological programs intended to better understand St. Augustine’s past, and to preserve the tangible remnants of that past that have survived. Today we are one of the few places in the nation with a funded archaeological ordinance, and a vibrant collaboration between avocational and professional archaeologists, students and the general public. This talk will consider how St. Augustine archaeology has evolved over the past century, highlighting some of the projects, programs and people that have influenced the shape of St. Augustine archaeology in 2026.
Kathleen Deagan is Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology Emerita and the Emerita Lockwood Professor of Florida and Caribbean Archaeology at the University of Florida. Her research has focused on the archaeology of the Spanish colonial period in Florida and the Caribbean. She has conducted excavations in St. Augustine, Florida, since 1972, including the identification and excavations of Ft. Mose, America’s first free Black community, and Florida’s first Spanish settlement (1565-66). Since 1980, she has directed excavation programs in the Caribbean, including La Isabela, Christopher Columbus’s first town in America in collaboration with José M. Cruxent. She has also directed archaeological programs at Concepción de la Vega (1496-1562) in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Real, Haiti (1502-1578), and the En Bas Saline site in Haiti.
This event is co-hosted by the Florida Public Archaeology Network and Flagler College.
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Virginia Room at Flagler College, 74 King St, St Augustine, FL 32084-4342, United States, Augustine
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