Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter November 2018

NOVEMBER-2018 PRESERVATION EDUCATION RESEARCH INSPIREDear Member:November is a busy month for Time Sifters. We start with our November speaker, Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant who willspeak about his involvement with the story of the Rosewood Massacre. At the same meeting we will behanding out the Ringling Life Long Learning catalogs which will have all the registration information insidefor the The In-Depth Series - “Dead Sea Scrolls” by Dr. Steven Derfler. This will be held on January 25 asa day long presentation, with lunch, and will dive deep into this subject including the discovery, the politicsof ownership and the contents of the scrolls. Please join us January 25.This will be followed by our Holiday Party on the 27th. Glenn Cooper is hosting our party again this year athis house. There will be tons of food, beverages, games, and good conversation. A small cover charge of$6.00 to help cover all the goodies. Look for an email mid-month with more details and directions.Don’t forget, we take the month of December off to enjoy the Holidays. But six Time Sifters will be going on a13 day trip to Egypt. Our guide will be Steve Derfler. We will bring back tons of photos to share in January.We are always open for compliments and suggestions.Thank you for being a member of Time Sifters.Darwin “Smitty” Smith, President [email protected] 14, 6:00 PM Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota The Rosewood Massacre Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Central FloridaRosewood, Florida was once home to support public outreach in theto a prosperous African American area and beyond.community until its violent Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennantdestruction in 1923. The event has been conducting archaeologicalremained cloaked in collective amnesia research in Florida since 2005.until the 1990s. This presentation He is currently a Visiting Lecturer atdescribes work to update previous the University of Central Florida.research via a mixed methodsapproach combining historicalarchaeology, documentary research,and oral testimony. This interdis-ciplinary approach continues toprovide new information regardingthe lives of those who lived in thearea prior to Rosewood’s destruction.The presentation will discussrecent work funded by the FloridaDepartment of State as well asongoing work with digital technologies

Notes from a Time Sifter By Evelyn Mangie, Time Sifters Board MemberA Great Invention - The WheelbarrowWhen our ancestors shifted from to distant, hard to reach areas. It Romans preferred carts pulled bygathering and hunting to living in was especially helpful in supplying draft animals. The Europeanspermanent villages they lost the far-away mountain villages with discovered the wheelbarrow ideaability to supply themselves with grains that only grew in certain when the Crusader armies wentgoods that were only available in climates. east. Evidence for that comesspecific areas along their annual One of the first major users of the from a 1220 C.E. stained glassmigrations. So, ca. 3500 B.C.E. wheelbarrow was the Chinese window in the Chartres Cathedralthey invented the wheel, that military (who may be the original in France (Lienhard). But themarvelous invention that allowed inventors). The military used European medieval wheelbarrowgoods to be easily transported wheelbarrows to quickly deliver was used mainly for small loadsfrom one area to another. Many supplies to the front lines, and for to be carried over short distancesnew technologies came from the building forts and removing dirt and was never equal in design towheel, the pottery wheel, oxcart dug from moats. Wheelbarrows the Chinese wheelbarrow.wheels; chariot wheels, and more, were also piled together around a Neither have our modern wheel-but one of the most efficient uses fort to create a portable obstruction barrows caught up with theof wheel technology comes from a that enemy horses could not easily balance and grace of the Chinesesimple tool that is still in our climb. Chinese writer, wheelbarrow, but the wheelbarrowgarden sheds, the wheelbarrow. Tsêng Min-Hsing in 1176 C.E. in your garden shed can move through areas where a two- wheeled cart cannot go, it carriesD. NicholsThe wheelbarrow uses both the Wikipediawheel and lever technologies. Anunknown clever farmer from the remarked that the J. Lienhard, U. of HoustonHan Dynasty (206 B.C.E. – 220C.E.) created the first one, a basket wheelbarrow “mightmounted on two poles that are well be called a 'mobile fort' (J.attached to a single wheel. Its Needham in Science and Civilization inprimary use was to carry heavyloads over long distances. When China).loaded, it can be pushed or pulledby a single operator with relative The Chinese loved the new tool J. Lienhard, U. of Houstonease. and experimented with the idea, more supplies than anyone canThe invention was a boon to the creating many shapes and sizes carry alone, it is economical andempire because the population (UNESCO Courier, 1988). They does not pollute so it is eco-friendly.during the Han Dynasty had harnessed draft animals to the It is another successful, essential,grown to about 60 million people wheelbarrows to augment human Chinese invention.(about one quarter of the world’s power and put sails on thempopulation) in an empire that was (Wikipedia) that could boost theirextending itself across nearly two speed to about 30 miles per hourand a half million miles (J. Lienhard, U. of Houston).(Wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty).The Han had built an extensive The Europeans were slow toroad system for trade (including borrow this simple technology.the Silk Road) but the varying Some argue that there weregeography across the growing wheelbarrow-like vehicles in theempire prevented good roads from Greco-Roman period (M.J.T. Lewis)crossing mountains so the wheel- and we know that the classicalbarrow was a way to supply goods Greek architects used a similar device for carrying light loads on building sites, but the ancient

News & EventsSaturday, November 3, 9:30 to 12:30History Bike Tampa: West Tampa HistoryLocation: Kahwa Espresso Bar at Element, 808 N. Franklin St. Suite 117,Tampa, FL 33602Description: Two hour ride to Tampa's other cigar city, West Tampa. Cometo explore the development and history occurring in Tampa's historic West Tampa. Thistour will be led by West Tampa resident and champion Joshua Barber.Please RSVP, registration starts at 9:30 AM. We will depart “promptly” at 10 am. The touris provided free of charge, however, there's a suggested donation of $5. Come ready toride safe (helmet!!). Thursday, November 8th, 5:00 - 8:00 Tree Island Communities of the Late Archaic with Dr. William Locascio of Florida Gulf Coast University. Holiday Party Tuesday, November 27th, 6:00 PMGlenn Cooper is hosting our party again this year at his house. There will betons of food, beverages, games, and good conversation. A small cover charge of $6.00 to help cover all the goodies.Officers: Board of Directors Copyright © 2018Darwin \"Smitty\" Smith, President Time SiftersArchaeologySociety,Inc.,Sherry Svekis, Vice President Directors: Steven Derfler All rights reserved.vacant, Secretary Robert Bopp Evelyn Mangie We send newsletters to peopleLaura Harrison, Treasurer Dorothy Cascio Sharon McConnell who have attended or expressedKaren Jensen, Membership Glenn Cooper interestin our lecturesand given us their email address.

Membership Speakers & Events CalendarLifetime: $350 All to be held at 6:00 PMIndividual: $25 Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota 34236Family: $35Student: $10 November 14 The Rosewood MassacrePay online at: Dr. Edward González-TennantWWW.TimeSifters.orgOr mail checks to: November 27Time Sifters, Inc. Holiday PartyPO Box 5283 Fun for All!!Sarasota, FL. 34277 January 16 The Archaeology Year in Review Darwin “Smitty“ Smith January 25 In-Depth Series: The Dead Sea Scrolls Dr. Steven Derfler ** Class at Ringling Life Long LearningTime Sifters Archaeology SocietyP. O. Box 5283, Sarasota, FL 34277