Uzi Baram
Over my career in academia, I found myself publishing in Historical Archaeology, the archaeology of the recent past, because my interests focus on how present social inequalities developed and are maintained. My undergraduate training was in four-field anthropology, focused on cultural anthropology but my field experience started with archaeological surveys in the corn fields of New York’s Southern Tier. I turned to Historical Archaeology in New England and explored historic cultural landscapes in terms of materiality and power relations. Continuing with Historical Archaeology, my dissertation research moved to the Middle East where I spent a great deal of time and effort on Ottoman period artifacts and landscapes, mostly in Israel but also on Cyprus and with interest in Egypt, Turkey, and Greece. The research into the past never was limited to what was; employing the dual lens of ethnography and archaeology for the intersection of present and past. After a few years in Sarasota, I began field projects in southwest Florida, hoping to balance Florida and eastern Mediterranean research. The opportunity to contribute to a search for a maroon community ignited the strands in my scholarship. Shifting my energies to Sarasota and Manatee, I have delved deeper in the contemporary significance of the past for the present, focused on community service learning (since my career rests at a teaching-intensive residential liberal arts college), public archaeology, and the intersection of anthropology and social justice.
Now my focus is public archaeology with emphasis on Indigenous rights and concerns for heritage in this age of rising sea levels and climate transformations
Address: Division of Social Sciences
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243 USA
Now my focus is public archaeology with emphasis on Indigenous rights and concerns for heritage in this age of rising sea levels and climate transformations
Address: Division of Social Sciences
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243 USA
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century Florida Gulf Coast; some of the locations are hidden in plain sight. The settlements were along major rivers entering the Gulf of Mexico, places where archaeological research has recovered and even reconstructed the landscapes of freedom. In one of those heritage sites, diasporic people have returned to celebrate on the ground their ancestors found liberty. The evidence for this early 19th-century history is fragmentary and in the process of being organized, analyzed, and disseminated. Traveling across the contemporary landscape, the places can be missed. But the result of noticing this robust heritage animates understandings of history beneath our feet as we travel down the Florida peninsula.
century Florida Gulf Coast; some of the locations are hidden in plain sight. The settlements were along major rivers entering the Gulf of Mexico, places where archaeological research has recovered and even reconstructed the landscapes of freedom. In one of those heritage sites, diasporic people have returned to celebrate on the ground their ancestors found liberty. The evidence for this early 19th-century history is fragmentary and in the process of being organized, analyzed, and disseminated. Traveling across the contemporary landscape, the places can be missed. But the result of noticing this robust heritage animates understandings of history beneath our feet as we travel down the Florida peninsula.
For FZPA the presentation contribute to the understanding of planning relates issues by going beyond visible historic structures and explaining the significance of archaeological sites as a challenge and a significant question when material traces are the only evidence for inspiring heritage left for the present. This presentation focuses on an early 19th century history for a history of freedom-seeking people who created hamlets across the region between the Manatee River and Sarasota Bay. Connecting the material traces of the community to the archival record and to contemporary people through public performances is meant to suggest new reasons for integrating the management of the archaeological record into planning process.
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Archaeology and the Archaeological Eras at Phillippi Estate Park, November 12, 2106
Archaeology and its findings continue to be of intense public interest as seen in media coverage, public attendance at archaeology presentations, visitations to museums and virtual exhibits, and attention given to current projects at local archaeological and historical sites. Archaeologists have developed both site specific and statewide presentations; missing has been regional representations, for instance there was no readily accessible information for the region between Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor. The Virtual Guided Tour fills that gap: an interactive, engaging website to facilitate easy access to the insights and information from archaeology for the general public.
public while promoting an awareness of cultural resources and historic preservation. As public archaeology across the Sarasota
Bay watershed and Manatee River, the NCPAL programs focus on engaging residents and visitors through a variety of methods, which range from educational programs and demonstrations of archaeological practices to historic preservation and archaeological excavations. Each program or project is a partnership or collaboration that NCPAL undertakes to serve multiple goals such as supporting research on little understood aspects of the area’s past, providing resources to underserved communities to assist with preservation initiatives, sharing knowledge to encourage support for archaeological stewardship, and providing opportunities for undergraduates to engage in the process of public archaeology. This poster showcases examples of current projects including Looking for Angola; the Survey of the Galilee Cemetery: Community, Race, and Commemoration; and the Coastal Peoples of 19th century Sarasota Pass: Teaching Archaeology and the Environment for
Elementary Schoolchildren.