CGCAS Florida
The Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society is the Tampa Bay chapter of the Florida Anthropological Society, and was organized in 1977. We are a state-chartered non-profit organization and have dozens of members from all walks of life. We are dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Florida's great cultural heritage.
Membership is open to anyone with a sincere interest in the cultural past of Florida and who is dedicated to the understanding and preservation of that heritage.
The monthly CGCAS Archaeology Lecture series is sponsored by the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE) and held at the Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center (1800 Weedon Dr NE, St Petersburg, Florida). All talks are free and open to the public.
The CGCAS monthly lectures have temporarily moved to a digital format using the Zoom platform. See our website for upcoming lecture topics and times.
CGCAS October 2025 Lecture: Findings from Florida: Perspectives on Submerged Landscape Research
CGCAS March Lecture - North America’s First Pots: Insights into Stallings Culture and Cuisine
CGCAS February 2025 - The Long Human History of Tampa Bay
CGCAS January 2025 - Mapping the American Sea: A Cartographic History of the Gulf of Mexico
Dec 2024 - In the Footsteps of Flag and Jody: Historical Archaeology of The Yearling
Oct 2024 - The Spanish Seminole: The Untold History of the Spanish Indians as Told by a Descendant
CGCAS April 2024: Discoveries from the Garrison, One of Tampa's Earliest Black Neighborhoods
CGCAS January 2024: The State of Submerged Paleolandscape Prospection and Assessments
December 2023 Lecture: “Sticks of Fire”: Toponymic Imaginaries in Tampa Bay
September 2023: Broad-scale Excavations at Sarabay: Piecing Together the Layout of a Timucuan Town
April 2023 Lecture:Tracing Marine Transgression at Manasota Key Offshore using Crassostrea virginica
February 2023 Lecture: Indian Slavery and Maronnage in Early Modern Florida
Dec 22 - Hunter-Gatherer Settlement and Subsistence at Letchworth Mounds (8JE337)
Nov 2022 - Localized Histories of Calusa Ecology and Economy, Southwestern Florida, AD 1000 — 1500
October 2022 Lecture: Fire and Water: Pre-Columbian landscape management in the Southwestern Amazon
September 2022 Lecture: Archaeology of Colonialism at Fort Mose: Forging Freedom Through Practice
April 2022 Lecture: Black Cemeteries Matter: Erasure of historic Black Cemeteries in Polk County, FL
March 2022 Lecture: Ice Age Florida: In Story and Art
February 2022 Lecture: Muskogean Council Houses and Indigenous Democracy in the Southeastern U.S.
January 2022 Lecture: Lost Cities of the Cloud Forest: 21st-century Archaeology in the Eastern Andes
December 2021 Lecture: Feasting and Fishes at Florida's Crystal River Site and Roberts Island
November 2021 Lecture: Five Millennia of Environmental Changes in the Coastal Southeast US
September 2021 Lecture: The Ancient Mound-Builders of Tomoka: Ecology, Migration, and Ritual
April 2021 Lecture: Florida’s Forgotten City: The Archaeology of the Lost City of St. Joseph
February 2021 Lecture: Tampa Bay Archaeology
January 2018 Lecture: Vertebrate Fossils & Cultural Modification
February 2018 Lecture: Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano's Colony & Fleet
April 2018 Lecture: Archaeology of Early Contact & Florida Mission Sites
September 2018 Lecture: New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River
February 2019 Lecture: History Washing Away: The Archaeological Past and Future of Egmont Key