Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter December 2019

DECEMBER-2019 PRESERVATION EDUCATION RESEARCH INSPIRE Dear Member: We are taking the month of December off to enjoy our friends, family and maybe do some traveling. We will be back on January 22, 2020 to give the presentation “Archaeology Year in Review”. The presentation is coming together nicely. I hope you will like it. We are excited about our second In-Depth Seminar on January 31st “Neanderthals & Early Humans”. This will be an all day seminar held at OLLI Ringling Life Long Learning’s new facility at the old Sarasota High School. Details about registration and cost are on page two. We have made one small change to when our dues are collected. Previously membership dues were collected on your anniversary date, but this has proven very hard to administer. So with that in mind, the Board changed the procedure so that all membership dues will be collected in January at our January presentation. So if you pay up your dues now, you are good till January 2021! Thank you for being a Time Sifters member. See you on the 22nd. Darwin “Smitty” Smith, President [email protected] Notes from a Time Sifter By Elissa Mirabelli, Time Sifters Member Early Time Sifters, 1985 CE Three days into the holiday season in 1989, when most folks leave town and head out of state, bones were unearthed by bulldozer on a Manasota Key Beach property. Construction for a new residence was suspended the moment evidence of human remains surfaced in the bulldozer bucket. The crew may have known the proper thing to do thanks to a small, recently formed club named Time Sifters Archaeology Society. In the Fall of 1985, native Floridian historical sites in our area. times a month for 1-2 hours sharing Marion Almy, owner of Eight to ten courageous jovial, creative bantering to set the Archaeological Consultants, Inc. classmates presented the idea of club specifics into its “go” mode. (ACI) today, taught a continuing a club to work toward preservation In this small space, during an active education night class on Archaeology goals. night of incredible cooperative 101 at Sarasota High School. creative energy, our club’s name, Spirited dialogues and captivating Jodi John, Don Ocker, Marion “Time Sifters,” arrived: The major storytelling inspired many a curious Almy, Leah Schrock, Barbara excavation tool? The sifting screen minded person, most new to Florida, to Menadier, Margo Bucci, and … endlessly sifting soil and relic discover the depths of Sarasota’s early Lisa Mirabelli crammed into human inhabitants, and the ACI’s 10’x10’ office space 2-3 Continued on page 2 ... absolute need to educate local agencies, and looters, toward preservation of archaeological and

Continued from page 1 ... Early Time Sifters, 1985 CE debris accumulated over time = required by Florida Statutes In 1987 Time Sifters had 27 Time Sifters Archaeological Society, 872.02 and 872.05. This brochure members and the guidance of Inc. received statewide distribution amazing archaeological and recognition and it is still professionals. Over three decades of Working together, early members used today! changes, challenges, and new made connections and faces, Time Sifters has established the first Board of In these early years, members maintained all it began with and Directors, incorporated the were also passionate about more including the mission, “to organization with the Florida volunteering to take part in preserve through education.” Secretary of State, and drafted a “digs”, helping on excavations Today, Time Sifters has well over Code-of-Ethics. The group of and learning awe-inspiring Florida passionate new members creat- archaeology. With professional 100 interested and dedicated ed our Constitution & Bylaws, archaeologists, Time Sifters’ members. and Committees to oversee members participated in several Budget & Finance, Media, excavations on Florida’s West Programs, Events, and Membership. Coast, including Chokoloskee in Monthly meetings were held at the Everglades, Bonita Springs the former Barnett Bank/ in Lee County, and Manasota Stickney Point on Siesta Key. Key Beach and Historic Spanish Point in Sarasota County. In Guided by the group’s original 1986, 14 members of Time Sifters passions for preservation, Time viewed the extraordinary Sifters created a brochure Windover Farms excavation site outlining the protection of in Titusville. unmarked human burials as

News & Events Sunday, December 8—2:00 PM “Rising Tides – Shifting Sands: Ancient Sites in Peril” John McCarthy will be presenting at the Edson Keith Mansion in Phillippi Estate Park. This presentation will be a fundraiser for the renovation of the Historic Keith Farmhouse at $20.00 per ticket. Light refreshments to follow. Did You Know? POSH. When reading about the Figure 1 Figure 2 British Empire, the East India Tea Company and the British becoming the meaning for paying Colonization of India are for special treatment which often prominent. You will often run is only available to the wealthy. across the term POSH. Wikipedia This is based on loads of tells us that a popular folk documentation and photographs etymology holds that the term is on luggage with the stamp an acronym for \"port out (PO), “POSH” on them. However, starboard home (SH)\", describing Wikipedia states there is no direct the cooler, north-facing cabins evidence for this claim. taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Copyright © 2019 Britain to India and back. Thus Time SiftersArchaeologySociety,Inc., All rights reserved. Officers: Board of Directors We send newsletters to people Darwin \"Smitty\" Smith, President who have attended or expressed Sherry Svekis, Vice President Directors: Evelyn Mangie interestin our lecturesand given us Marion Almy, Secretary Dorothy Cascio Don Nelson their email address. Laura Harrison, Treasurer Steven Derfler Karen Jensen, Membership

Membership Speakers & Events Calendar Lifetime: $350 Unless noted, all will be held at 6:00 PM Individual: $25 Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota 34236 Family: $35 Student: $10 January 22, 2020 Supporting $40 Archaeology Year in Review: A look at what was talked about in 2019. Pay online at: Smitty Smith WWW.TimeSifters.org Or mail checks to: January 31 Time Sifters, Inc. In-Depth Series … Neanderthals & Early Humans: An all PO Box 5283 day Workshop on our early Ancestors Sarasota, FL. 34277 Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant February 19 Kolomoki Mounds: One of the Largest earliest Woodland Period earthwork mound complexes in the SE USA Dr. Thomas Pluckhahn Time Sifters Archaeology Society P. O. Box 5283, Sarasota, FL 34277