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August Membership Meeting
August 17, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Don’t Miss the August 17th Membership Meeting at 7:00PM.
Shells, shell ornaments and sharks’ teeth found
in new Miami archaeological site.
Extracted from Miami Herald articles by reporter Andres Viglucci, Feb, 2023
A new archaeological excavation, on the west side of the Brickell Bridge in downtown Miami, has uncovered extensive evidence of a continuous indigenous settlement on the south bank of the Miami River stretching back as long as 7,000 years (pre-Tequesta), far longer than previously thought, to a period that saw the emergence of human civilization around the planet. Although the dig is not yet complete, the finds at the site, on the Miami River’s south bank just west of the Brickell Avenue bridge, are already recasting what anthropologists and historians thought they knew about the presence of prehistoric and indigenous people at the mouth of the waterway, the birthplace of both ancient and modern Miami. (edited from original)
Our August Program speaker is
SARA AYERS-RIGSBY, M.A., RPA
This month’s speaker will be Sara Ayers-Rigsby, Director for the Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Southeast/Southwest Regions. Ayers-Rigsby specializes in cultural resources management and historic preservation, 
and is responsible for designing educational outreach and programming for Florida’s southernmost 9 counties. Prior to that role, she spent 10 years working as an archaeologist throughout the United States, with a regional focus on the archaeology of the southeast and Mid Atlantic. She earned her M.A. in Archaeology for Screen Media from the University of Bristol, UK, and her B.A. in Classical Archaeology from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She is certified as a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA). Her research interests include public outreach and archaeology, resiliency, archaeological compliance legislation, and industrial archaeology in Florida. She loves visiting state parks, historical sites, and house museums in south Florida and is always thrilled to talk to others about them.
AUGUST – Rockhound Challenge
A self-collected find of ANY COLOR
Bring your best self-collected rock or mineral
for your chance to WIN a Cool Prize!…
Quartz crystals with Barite, from Georgia…
View the dig video
From our May 6 Field Trip
to the Boneyard Fossil Farm?
Here’s the link. Take a look!
FREE ADMISSION
to NORTON ART MUSEUM
The Norton Art Museum is FREE to Palm Beach County residents
on Saturdays until September 4.