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Sam
Chapman leads a crew of volunteers back to the top of the mound at Mound Key
after a day of brush-clearing operations in March, 1994. The cleared line of
sight can be seen behind the crew. (Photo by W. Marquardt.)December, 1993: Calusa News no. 7 went to press on December 1. Visitors to the labs in December included Barbara Sumwalt (Useppa Island), Gordie Truss (Williston), and Bill Kerrigan (Archaeological Conservancy, Atlanta). Bob Edic and Bill Marquardt met with editor Alice Allen, who began work on Bob's oral-history manuscript.
Corbett Torrence and Sam Chapman began a project to map Mound Key, funded by a grant from the Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation to the Koreshan Unity Alliance.
Chuck turned over the second draft of his book New Words, Old Songs to Claudine Payne for editing. Karen Walker wrote up the results of her sea-level research on St. Vincent Island. New Hewlett Packard computer equipment for our Useppa Island field station arrived and was installed in the Useppa Island Historical Museum by Ria Palov. Ria also completed her first draft of a chapter for the Useppa monograph, and Susan White neared completion of her Useppa ceramics studies. Ann Cordell worked on Pineland ceramics, Jenna Wallace continued to sort Pineland archaeobotanical remains, and Carol Godwin continued her soils analysis. Mary Reynolds and Sue Ellen Hunter did artifact illustrations, while Merald Clark prepared drawings for the Useppa Island museum's upcoming open house and Tom Vogler worked on Pineland stratigraphic drawings. Rob Patton and Bill Marquardt began planning a research effort at Burgess Island in collaboration with Gary Ellis. Bill continued working with Darcie MacMahon on script and Dorr Dennis on design of the planned permanent exhibit, tentatively titled The Domain of the Calusa. Karen put together an application to Conservation and Recreational Lands (CARL) for purchase of the Pineland Site Complex.
‹ January, February, March, 1994: Analysis continued on ceramics (Ann Cordell, Susan White), Pineland sediments (Carol Godwin, Sylvia Scudder), shell artifacts (Rob Patton), archaeobotany (Jenna Wallace, Lee Newsom), osteology (Dale Hutchinson), lithic analysis (Bob Austin), seasonality studies (Irv Quitmyer), illustrations and drawings (Merald Clark, Sue Ellen Hunter, Tom Vogler), manuscript editing (Claudine Payne, Alice Allen), Useppa artifact curation (Ria Palov), Pineland writing/editing and National Register nominations (Karen Walker), and writing/exhibit planning (Bill Marquardt). Assisted by numerous volunteers, Corbett and Sam cleared lines of sight on Mound Key in preparation for mapping. John Maseman worked on conserving the Pineland waterlogged cordage. Visitors to the lab included Jan and Robin Brown, Michael Hansinger, Barbara Sumwalt, and the Museum Adventures honors class from UF.
Calusa News no. 7 was mailed on March 3. Presentations were made by Bill in Naples, Pineland, and Matlacha, and Karen and Bill appeared at a CARL public hearing in Tallahassee. An article by Bill called The Role of Archaeology in Raising Environmental Consciousness: An Example from Southwest Florida, was published in the book Historical Ecology, edited by Carole Crumley.
‹April, May, June, 1994: Bill, Corbett, Karen, and Merald attended the grand opening of the Useppa Island Historical Museum on April 2. Sue Ellen completed shell-artifact illustrations for Rob's chapter, to be derived from his thesis (defended April 11), and then did drawings for Ria's Useppa chapter. Rob began field survey work on Burgess Island with a volunteer crew in conjunction with Ellis Archaeology. Merald continued to work on illustrations and a cover painting for Chuck's book, New Words, Old Songs, while Tom did drawings for theWightman and Journal of Coastal Research (JCR) projects. Bill visited Sanibel, Pineland, and Tallahassee to consult about various projects, and worked with Darcie MacMahon on a proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for exhibit planning. They led an eleven-person field trip for education and natural science staff to Mound Key and Pineland in connection with the exhibit planning. Bill was invited to Los Angeles in April to participate in an international symposium on fisher-gatherer-hunter societies, and attended the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Anaheim, as did Karen. He visited Useppa Island in May to salvage the remains of a human burial disturbed by construction; Jenna Wallace analyzed the remains.
Karen and Bill met with Alice Allen to consider a design for Bob Edic's book and edited Rob's shell-artifact chapter for the Pineland book. Sam and Corbett completed the field research phase of the Mound Key project and sent a draft map and report to the Koreshan Unity Alliance in Fort Myers. Claudine Payne completed a conceptual draft of the Mound Key brochure and it was submitted for comment. Sam began preliminary work on desk-top publishing of Bob Edic's book, working with Alice. Ria passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam and Carol passed her M.A. exam. Karen worked on the National Register project and her paper for JCR. Ann worked on Pineland decorated pottery, Susan continued on Galt pottery, and Sylvia worked on the soils analysis. A publication by Karen, Bill, and Frank Stapor focusing on the sea-level implications of the Wightman site appeared in The Florida Anthropologist (vol. 47, pp. 161-179). Bill completed the final draft of a summary paper on the Calusa, to appear in a book called Societies in Eclipse, edited by Wesley Cowan. Bob Austin completed lab analysis on the Pineland lithics. The Pineland property gift from Donald and Patricia Randell was finalized on May 25, transferring over 50 acres of the site to the University of Florida Foundation. Sam accepted a job in Tallahassee, and his desk-top publishing duties were assumed by Shelley Milch. Rob gave a talk to the Southwest Florida Archaeological Society (SWFAS) on the Burgess Island project. Visitors to the lab included Raymond Lutgert (Naples) and Jon Leader (Columbia, S.C.).
‹ July, August, September, 1994: Karen Walker and Museum development director Diane Mills traveled to Pineland to help coordinate a visit to the site by Secretary of State Jim Smith. Karen and Sue Ellen visited Mound Key, Josslyn Island, Cabbage Key, and Pineland with Mark Barnes (National Park Service); boat transportation was provided by Carl Johnson and Bud House. Karen worked on the Pineland excavation chapter and continued to edit chapters by others. Dale Hutchinson, Susan deFrance, and Sylvia Scudder completed the first drafts of their Pineland chapters, and Irv completed the first draft of his and Melissa Massaro's Useppa chapter.
Ann Cordell worked on minority paste categories of the Pineland ceramics. Rob did lab work and analysis of the Burgess Island findings. John Maseman completed conservation of the Pineland cordage. Jenna and Rob participated in the summer museum program for children in July. Final drafts of the Mound Key maps, report, and brochure were prepared and submitted. The first draft of the video script was completed by Stuart Brown and edited by Bill and Karen.
An appreciation banquet was held in Fort Myers for the Randells, hosted by University of Florida president John Lombardi and his wife Cathryn. Bill, with Karen and Sam's assistance, prepared a commemorative booklet called Pineland: A Key to the Past, A Guide to the Future.
Jon Leader completed a detailed examination of the medallion from Pineland. Sue Ellen completed illustrations for Bob Austin's lithics chapter and began work on Sylvia's for her Pineland soils chapter, while Merald completed the artwork for Chuck's book. Claudine Payne designed Chuck's book and began desk-top publishing work on it, while Shelley Milch continued on Bob's.
Bill worked on further information for the CARL staff, with help from Gloria Sajgo and Annette Snapp of Lee County. He also began his research and writing for the Useppa monograph. Bill and Karen, along with FLMNH associate director Graig Shaak, journeyed to Keywadin Island to meet Tom Conroy and Barrett Ott and tour an archaeological site there.
Visitors to our labs included Bill Payne (Cape Coral), Barbara and Bob Sumwalt (Useppa Island), and Gordie Truss (Williston).
‹ October, November, December, 1994: Carol Godwin completed the first draft of her Pineland auger-survey chapter, and Irv the first draft of the Pineland zooarchaeology chapter. Karen and Bill edited Pineland chapters and continued to work with Alice on Bob's book, Fisherfolk of Charlotte Harbor, Florida. Bob wrote an epilogue for his book and added a section about fish houses. Sue Ellen, Merald, and Ann represented the project at the annual FLMNH open house on October 2. Sue Ellen illustrated wooden artifacts for Lee Newsom's chapter.
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Producer
Ilene Safron (left, next to video camera), Writer/Director Stuart Brown, and
archaeologist Bill Marquardt work in the FLMNH's collections, October, 1994, to
videotape artifacts from the Key Marco excavations. the finished product can be
seen in our new video program, The Domain of the Calusa.
(Photo by A. Arrington.)
Order
video.
Ilene Safron, Stuart Brown, and Arden Arrington were in Gainesville for three days in October shooting video and lab work for our video program, The Domain of the Calusa. Narration by Peter Thomas was recorded in November, and other dramatic readings were finished in December. Merald completed paintings of Fontaneda and European captives needed for the video, Corbett generated a new series of maps, and Kat Epple composed original music for the soundtrack. Bill and Ilene worked through an edit of specific scenes for several days in Fort Myers.
Chuck Blanchard worked with Lee, Charlotte, and Collier county teachers in November. Bill wrote a proposal to the F.A.O. Schwarz Family Foundation for $5,000 to create teaching materials for the Pineland site.
Ann Cordell continued her Pineland ceramics analysis, the Pineland catalogue was edited and updated by Jenna Wallace and her volunteer staff, the final draft of the JCR paper was completed by Karen and Bill, and Corbett completed the master Pineland excavation map. Claudine Payne defended her dissertation on November 8.
At the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, six papers on the Pineland research were presented on November 10:
Corbett gave a talk in November to the Useppa Island Historical Society. Bill and Karen visited the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve near Naples with Brent Weisman and Steve Bertone to see archaeological sites there.
We received word in December that our NEH proposal for exhibit planning had been funded for $45,000. Bill's proposal to the F.A.O. Schwarz Family Foundation was also funded. Bill and Darcie completed a proposal to the Florida Humanities Council for $28,813 to develop a traveling exhibit on the Florida Gulf coastal fishing tradition. The exhibit would travel to Apalachicola, Cedar Key, St. Petersburg, Punta Gorda, Pine Island Center, and Chokoloskee in 1996. Unfortunately, the CARL committee decided not to include Pineland on the CARL list for study in 1995. We resubmitted for 1996, and will go through the whole year-long process again. Bill, Karen, and Diane Mills met with UF architectural preservationist Herschel Shepard and two of his students. Herschel agreed to assist us in writing a master plan for development of the Randell Research Center. Visitors to the FLMNH included Bud House (St. James City) and Barbara and Reed Toomey (Sanibel).
‹ January, February, March 1995: Sue Ellen completed the wooden artifact illustrations for Lee Newsom and reformatted Carol's and Irv's figures for their chapters. Chuck Blanchard's book went to press in early January, and was printed by late March, in time for a speaking tour and several public appearances. Bill wrote text for and designed the video box cover, and Merald completed the art work for it. Bill also worked on the Useppa book, continued to consult on the video and soundtrack editing, and helped with editing Pineland chapters. Rob worked on bone artifacts from Pineland. Corbett completed the first draft of his Pineland chapter. Under Jenna's supervision, volunteers Lilith Judd, Brooke Williams, and Rebecca Johnson curated archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological materials, while Mark Muniz worked on a project to determine the ratios of crested oyster to common oyster in certain Pineland samples.
In February during Florida Archaeology Week, Jenna Wallace conducted test excavations at the Pineland site, assisted by Bill, Karen, and several volunteers. Test pits exploring the Caloosahatchee IIA and IIB periods at the Old Mound remnant and the Randell Mound, respectively, will provide data for Jenna's M.A. thesis.
We had an Open House at Pineland on Saturday the 4th of February, with several hundred visitors touring the site. Bill gave a talk at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium Saturday afternoon, and Karen exhibited artifacts from Pineland at the Nature Center s archaeology fair. About 80 people showed up for Bill's talk. On Sunday Bill spoke to 110 people at the Collier County Museum in Naples. On Monday Bill spoke at the Pine Island branch library. Karen worked with Mark Barnes (National Park Service) on the National Register nominations. In Naples Bill addressed 120 people at the Naples Rotary Club. Karen gave a report to the Lee County Historic Preservation Advisory Board on the National Register nominations project. Chuck Blanchard and Bob and Linda Edic were on hand through most of the week. Bob and Linda helped out with site tours, while Chuck worked with Lee County teachers. Corbett gave a Mound Key tour to 71 people. Diane Mills, Museum development director, was with us through Thursday morning, and helped with all activities. Karen represented our project on Sunday afternoon the 12th at the FLMNH for its Archaeology Week open house. She and Bill proofread galleys for their JCR article.
Bill, Darcie MacMahon, Bob Leavy, Marilyn Roberts, and Lane Beck traveled to southwest Florida to confer with four Native American consultants about exhibit planning as part of the NEH-sponsored planning for the permanent exhibit at the FLMNH Education/Exhibition Center. They toured Mound Key and Pineland, got acquainted with the consultants, and talked about the exhibit planning process. The consultants are Joe Quetone, Madelaine Tongkeamha, Billy Cypress, and Mary Johns.
Jenna, Karen, and Bill returned to Pineland in March for a week to complete the test excavations; a preview showing of the Calusa video program was held at Ray and Anna Stober's house for Pine Island residents and volunteers. Dale Hutchinson submitted the second draft for his Pineland chapter. We received word that our Florida Humanities Council grant had been funded in full. Bob made corrections to his book, with the assistance of Chuck Thomas, Bill Marquardt, Chuck Blanchard, and George Luer. Merald turned in the first draft of his chapter on the crane-head figure from Pineland.
‹April, May, June 1995: The official premier showing of the Calusa video was held at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium on April 2, with over 200 guests showing up. The video was also shown on April 8 at the Florida Anthropological Society meeting in Sebring by Robin Brown. Jenna worked on processing the artifacts and beginning the analysis of materials excavated at Pineland in February and March. Ann completed ceramics analysis and began writing her Pineland chapter.
Bill, Darcie, Bob Leavy, Max Nickerson, and Michael Falck toured museums in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Cahokia, and Denver to learn about successful exhibit techniques in connection with the Calusa exhibit planning. Bill spent much of his time on exhibit scriptwriting. Rob and Corbett completed the second drafts of their Pineland chapters.
The Land Acquisition Advisory Council of CARL visited the Pineland site complex in May. Also in attendance were Roger Clark (land acquisition specialist for Lee County), Bob Repenning (Manager of the Southwest Florida Aquatic and State Buffer Preserves), Gary Lytton (Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve), Dick Workman (ecologist), Rick Joyce (Environmental Sciences division, Lee County), Alan Gruber (Archaeological Conservancy), Brent Weisman (CARL archaeologist), Bud House (Calusa Land Trust and Southwest Florida Archaeological Society), KarenWalker, and Bill Marquardt.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held in late April for the FLMNH's new Education/Exhibition Center, which will feature a permanent exhibit on the Calusa and their environment.
Sue Ellen began desk-top publishing work on the Pineland chapters. Bill completed first drafts of three Useppa chapters. In addition to editing Pineland chapters, Karen continued work on the National Register project. Sites being nominated for the first time include Galt Island, Useppa Island, and the Mark Pardo Shellworks. Sites being updated include Josslyn Island, Mound Key, and Pineland. Susan White completed her thesis on Galt Island ceramics and defended it successfully on June 5. Rob Patton conducted a survey of archaeological sites on the property of the Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center.
Visitors to the labs included Annette Snapp (Fort Myers), Ray and Anna Stober (Bokeelia), John Parkington (Univ. of South Africa), Alan Gruber and Mark Michel (Archaeological Conservancy).
‹ July, August, September, 1995: Karen reviewed Pineland chapters, Useppa chapters, the exhibit script, Bob Edic's book manuscript, and the Calusa exhibit script, and completed the National Register project. Bill and Karen visited the Marco Island excavations being conducted by Randolph Widmer and Rebecca Storey.
The Randell Research Center advisory board met in Bokeelia on June 20. Bill spent most of his time working on the exhibit planning and working on Useppa editing and writing. Margaret Scarry's Useppa chapter was given to Sue Ellen for desk-top publishing; Irv's chapter was line-edited and returned to him; Carol s latest draft was edited and returned to her; Corbett submitted a near-complete draft of his thesis, and Bill edited it. Merald defended his thesis on July 11.
The exhibit script was revised by Darcie and Bill and given back to the Natural Science committee members for their comments. Claudine Payne began designing the cover for Bob Edic's book. Jenna completed a zooarchaeological analysis of some Pineland samples from the 1995 excavations. On July 6, Karen, Bill, Dan Clark, Barbara Sumwalt, and Gordie Truss journeyed to Sebring to speak to the Land Acquisition Advisory Council in favor of CARL's purchase of Pineland. On July 14 the Pineland Site Complex was unanimously added to the list of properties to be studied for possible CARL purchase. Final vote will be in December, after hearings in late October.
Bill and Darcie hosted Native American consultants in Gainesville on July 14-16. They reviewed and discussed the Calusa Domain exhibit script and representative objects. Karen, Jenna, Rob, and Elise assisted Darcie and Bill with selecting artifacts for the consultants visit. Karen completed corrections to Rob's shell-artifact chapter and returned that manuscript to Sue Ellen for DTP formatting. Rob worked on CHEC survey analysis and volunteered some time to keep the computers in working order. Jenna represented the project at the FLMNH's summer children's program on July 26.
Bill, Karen, and Diane Mills represented our project and the University at a memorial service on Pine Island on July 27 for Col. Don Randell.
Our video program was duplicated and packaged for sale, while negotiations continued for its first public broadcast. A mock-up of Bob Edic's book was ready for review in August. It was read by Betty Anholt, George Luer, Bill Marquardt, and Karen Walker. Claudine and Chuck, in consultation with Bill, began working on a lesson plan for the Pineland Site Complex.
August 25 found Bill on Useppa Island, where he conducted an interview with Garfield Beckstead in connection with the Useppa monograph. Bill and Darcie went to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and to the University Museum in Philadelphia to examine collections from Key Marco. Karen, working with Robin Denson and Gary Ellis, wrote a successful proposal to Lee County for an archaeological survey of properties near Hickey Creek. Visitors to the labs included Jim and Betty Anholt and George and Dina Nelson.
‹ October-November, 1995: Russell Bethea was hired to complete the design for the Calusa Domain exhibit. Kate Singley visited the Museum October 15-19 to do a conservation assessment for that exhibit. In coordination with Marion Gilliland, Bill, Darcie, and Elise, with help from Jodi Stewart, worked on processing a special loan of Key Marco artifacts to the Collier County Museum. Bill went to Tallahassee for the CARL hearings on October 30 and he, Karen, and U.F. Foundation real estate director Bruce DeLaney spoke at the CARL hearings in Palatka on November 1.
Shelley Milch worked on the final corrections to Bob Edic's book, while Bill worked on photographs and Claudine Payne completed the book cover design. Merald completed the pottery illustrations for Ann's Pineland chapter as well as 3 maps for Bob's book. Karen went to Tallahassee to present the nominations of Lee County sites to the National Register. Bill and Darcie completed the first draft of the script for the traveling exhibit on Gulf coast fishing.
The following papers were presented in Knoxville on November 9 at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference:
A paper authored by Karen, Bill, and Frank Stapor entitled Archaeological Evidence for a 1750-1450 BP Higher-Than-Present Sea Level Along Florida s Gulf Coast was published in a special issue of the Journal of Coastal Research. Bill went to Washington, D.C. to present a paper on the Year of the Indian project at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting.
Karen went to Rookery Bay (near Naples) to give a workshop presentation for conservation personnel and went to Useppa Island to address a town meeting on the National Register project. Jenna updated the mailing list, donor list, and volunteer list for 1994-1995, and Bill, Claudine, and Karen completed Calusa News no. 8. It went into production on December 1.
Barbara
Sumwalt, President of the Useppa Island Historical Society, stands next to "The
Useppa Man" on April 2, 1994, the day of the grand opening of the Useppa
Island Historical Museum. The bust was sculpted for the museum by forensic
artist Betty Pat Gatliff based on a skull found in the Useppa Island excavations
of 1989. (Photo by W. Marquardt.)![[Photo of Tour Group]](/anthro/sflarch/calusa_8/gifphoto/corbett.gif)
Corbett
Torrence (center, facing camera) answers questions from an FLMNH exhibit
planning committee on a trip to Mound Key, April, 1994. The group of educators,
artists, and scientists was in southwest Florida to get a close look at the
environments they will help to portray in the planned permanent exhibit on the
Calusa Indians and their environment. (Photo by W. Marquardt.)![[Photo of Pat and Don Randell with UF president John Lombardi and his wife Cathryn]](/anthro/sflarch/calusa_8/gifphoto/randells.gif)
Pat
and Don Randell (foreground) pose with U.F. president John Lombardi and his wife
Cathryn at the conclusion of an appreciation banquet in Fort Myers, August 12,
1994. (Photo by Harmon Photographers, Fort Myers.)![[Photo]](/anthro/sflarch/calusa_8/gifphoto/laac.gif)
The
LAAC met in December, 1995, and placed Pineland #14 on the state purchase list.
(Photo by K. Walker.)![[Photo]](/anthro/sflarch/calusa_8/gifphoto/construc.gif)
The
FLMNH's new Education /Exhibition Center is taking shape on the western edge of
the U. F. Campus. (Photo by David Auth.)