Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter September 2019

SEPTEMBER-2019 PRESERVATION EDUCATION RESEARCH INSPIRE Dear Member: The season starts on September 18 with “The Great Pyramid of Giza: Separating Fact from Fiction” presented by Dr. David Miano from State College of Florida. Miano is a former speaker and a Time Sifters member. We look forward to his presentation. In this issue we have two articles from Time Sifters members who have been very active this summer, Dr. Uzi Baram of New College and Dr. Laura Harrison of USF-Tampa. Baram talks about ”The 2nd Annual Back to Angola Festival” held in July at Manatee Mineral Spring in Bradenton. Harrison talks about her 3D Project on Egmont Key at the mouth of Tampa Bay. This season we have put together a program of presentations that cover everything from Ancient Egypt to WWII German U boats. We hope you enjoy it. Thank you for being a Time Sifters member. See you on the 18th. Darwin “Smitty” Smith, President [email protected] The Great Pyramids of Giza: Separating Fact from Fiction Dr. David Miano Professor, State College of Florida Libraries are full of material dealing misinformation about these Dr. David Miano is an ancientist, with the subject of the Egyptian grand marvels and ancient specializing in the histories of the pyramids. Much research has architecture is sometimes spread. Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, been done on them, but there is Dr. Miano will address one of the India, and China. He earned his so much that is still unknown. common claims found on the Ph.D. at the University of California, Because they have entered the internet these days, that the San Diego, and currently teaches public imagination, countless Great Pyramid of Giza was not, in at the State College of Florida, documentaries, popular articles, fact, a tomb, as Egyptologists assert, Manatee-Sarasota. and internet blogs feature but something else entirely. Do He is the author of How to Know information about the pyramids, and these claims hold up to scrutiny, Stuff, a little e-book designed for quite commonly on the pyramids or are they built upon a foundation of the general public, and several of Giza specifically. With the rise sand? anthologies designed for classroom of independent media, however, use, including Ideas in the Making: A Sourcebook for World Intellectual History to 1300 and Pen, Stylus, and Chisel: An Ancient Egypt Sourcebook. He also is host of the ancient- history-focused Youtube channel, World of Antiquity.

Back to Angola Festival “Continuing Legacies of Public Archaeology: A July 2019 Festival in Bradenton” Dr. Uzi Baram, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the New College Public Archaeology Lab, Time Sifters Member Figure 1 Figure 3 Time Sifters Archaeology Society Figure 2 Figure 1 Junkanoo Rush (Photo: Uzi Baram). Figure 2 Daphney takes a well-earned summer Towns, Festival Organizer and Uzi Baram (Photo: Sherry Robinson break; but if you missed it, the Svekis). Figure 3 Scholars Panel (Photo: Uzi Baram) 2nd Annual Back to Angola Festival deserves your attention. Professor Howard joined Vickie archaeology I highlighted in a An estimated 200 people came to Oldham, project director for recently published chapter in Reflections of Manatee, Inc. to Looking for Angola, historian Transforming Heritage Practice celebrate a heritage of early 19th Dr. Canter Brown Jr., digital in the 21st Century. Titled “Like -century freedom-seeking people heritage specialist Ripples Across a Pond: Catalyzing along with descendants who Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, Heritage Programs Through Radical came from the Bahamas for the Sheri Jackson of the Network to Openness,” songs, poems, event. The festival, with scholars Freedom, Time Sifter’s Vice President History Fair videos and websites panel, music, and food, was Sherry Robinson Svekis, and me by middle school students, and organized by Oak Tree Community in a discussion of the history, tours illustrate that with robust Outreach, Inc. headed by archaeology, and meaning of public archaeology the archaeologist Daphney Towns, who has picked Angola. The insights traced both does not need to be the primary up the baton that started with the research trajectory that source of information or insights Vickie Oldham and Looking for resulted in the archaeological into the heritage recovered from Angola 15 years ago. recovery of traces of Angola, and the ground. The argument is the history: starting with Spanish straight-forward: inviting When Looking for Angola began, Florida as a haven from enslavement, community members to be part Time Sifters Archaeology Society through military clashes at the of the research process, from was there supporting it. Time Apalachicola and Suwanee rivers organizing a research design Sifters volunteers helped when I leading to the Manatee River being a through excavations and led archaeological excavations at haven of liberty, until 1821 presentations, provides the the Manatee Mineral Spring for when a slave raid destroyed the commitment that encourages Reflections of Manatee, and when community. But, as the festival creative and innovative I needed to catalogue the recovered showed, survivors found freedom dissemination of the insights belongings from the early 19th on Andros Island; some descendants from research. century Maroons of Angola. have now returned to a welcoming When it came time to celebrate local community. More projects need to have that the heritage of freedom on the heritage basis to ensure support south bank of the Manatee River, The scholarship matters but so for excavating and conserving Time Sifters members came to does the joy from the music and archaeological sites. As we grapple the site of ancestral liberty for food. The festival components with the rising sea levels of our people described by Rosalyn that have now become a tradition present, coastal heritage will Howard as the Black Seminoles align with the view of community become inundated; community of the Bahamas. engagement is the route to ensure documentation of sites, preservation of artifacts, and memories will be handed down to the next generations.

Rediscovering Egmont Key with Digital Technologies Dr. Laura Harrison, Director of Access 3D Lab, Research Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, Time Sifters Board Member As the Grey Cloud steamer departed back to their homeland south of document a lighthouse built in the shores of Egmont Key, Florida, Lake Okeechobee. Emateloye there was turmoil on land and at lived to be over 100 years old, and 1858 and military batteries from sea. On mainland Florida, deadly her progeny had many children that skirmishes over land between repopulated the tribe (Montgomery the Spanish-American War (1898- Seminoles and the U.S. Army 2013). Today, Egmont Key is a 1920), to contextualize the Seminole continued, as the Third Seminole place of reflection for tribal members – War came to a close. On board especially those who trace their story on Egmont Key. the ship, a crew of U.S. Army ancestry to her, her daughter, soldiers maintained a close and granddaughters. This summer, we set off from the watch over 164 members of the The story of Emateloye is all but Seminole Tribe who were captured invisible to the 200,000 people Fort DeSoto Fishing Pier for a 30- during the conflict. It's no surprise who visit Egmont Key each year, there was tension on the ship. because interpretive materials on minute ferry ride with 15 team The Seminoles were bound for the island are scarce. The Seminole unknown lands west of the Tribe is eager to share this story members and three Faro Focus Mississippi river, where they using digital technologies. Last laser scanners in tow. Over the would be forced to resettle. year, my colleague Dr. Brooke Hansen The Grey Cloud left Egmont Key (an anthropologist who does next three weeks, my team and I on May 4, 1858. Among the participatory action research with Seminole prisoners was Emateloye Native Americans) and I met with positioned the scanners inside, (Polly Parker) and her daughter, the Seminole Tribe at the Big Cypress Lucy Tiger. Several days later, reservation. Together, we designed a around, and on top of historic when the Grey Cloud docked at research project that would make St. Marks, south of Tallahassee, use of the 3D technologies at the buildings to create high-resolution Emateloye and Lucy Tiger lab I direct (Access 3D Lab at the three-dimensional point cloud disembarked to search for medicinal University of South Florida), to plants. They escaped and survived a give voice to this painful history. models (Figure 2). While the exact perilous 400-mile overland journey Along the way, we would also area that the Seminoles were Figure 1 Figure 2 imprisoned remains unknown Figure 3 because the buildings are destroyed, Figure 1 Aerial drone photo of Egmont Key lighthouse, built in we scanned a cemetery in which 1858. Photo: Mel Rodgers. Figure 2 Point cloud model of Battery five Seminoles had been buried Charles Mellon, created with terrestrial laser scanners. The Battery was built for the Spanish-American War, however the war (Figure 3). In 1912, these remains ended before construction of the battery was complete. Photo: were disinterred and reburied in Elliot Alvarez. Figure 3 Cemetery on Egmont Key. Photo: Laura Harrison the National Cemetery in St. Augustine. Scanning this site serves as a reminder of Seminole presence on the island. Conducting 3D scanning of Egmont Key’s historic remains is just the first step in a sustained, multi-year digital storytelling effort. In consultation with the Seminoles, Dr. Hansen and I are developing an immersive virtual reality tour of the island, which will allow users to autonomously navigate Egmont Key’s history in a virtual space populated with audio recordings of Seminole stories, historic photos, and interactive 3D models. Our goal is to make this content available for generations, to sustain the legacy of Emateloye, Lucy Tiger and the Seminole Tribe. Officers: Board of Directors Copyright © 2019 Darwin \"Smitty\" Smith, President Time SiftersArchaeologySociety,Inc., Sherry Svekis, Vice President Directors: Evelyn Mangie All rights reserved. Marion Almy, Secretary Dorothy Cascio Don Nelson We send newsletters to people Laura Harrison, Treasurer Steven Derfler who have attended or expressed Karen Jensen, Membership interestin our lecturesand given us their email address.

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 September 18 The Great Pyramid of Giza: Separating Fact from Fiction. Pay online at: Dr. David Miano WWW.TimeSifters.org Or mail checks to: October 16 Time Sifters, Inc. The Cow Cavalry: Florida Food for the Confederacy. PO Box 5283 Lindsey Morrison Sarasota, FL. 34277 November 20 Preserving a Lost WWII Battlefield off of North Carolina Dave Alberg January 22, 2020 Archaeology Year in Review: A look at what was talked about in 2019. Smitty Smith Time Sifters Archaeology Society P. O. Box 5283, Sarasota, FL 34277