Audubon Everglades Presents
“Florida’s Ice Age”
Presented by Sara Ayers-Rigsby, FAU Director, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Southeast/Southwest Region Organization
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 7PM
Zoom-Hosted Presentation (advance registration required)
6:45-7:00PM Social time with fellow members and presenters
While Florida has been a great place to live for over 10,000 years. Sara Ayers-Rigsby will describe how Florida, which once had a cooler climate and roaming mastodons, used to be a much different place. Learn about how Florida’s first people survived and thrived in this environment by counting on a paleo-diet (before it was all the rage), what birds where part of the landscape and how people used and interacted with them, and how archaeological evidence helps tell the story of this long ago past.
Bio
Sara Ayers-Rigsby specializes in cultural resources management and historic preservation. Prior to beginning her role as Southeast/ Southwest Regional Director, 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, 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.
Also, on tap for that evening will be a summary of our Palm Beach County 2021-22 Christmas Bird Count effort by Chuck Weber. The meetings will also include a review of important AE updates and related news and Clive and Cici Pinnock’s popular monthly presentation of the Bird of the Month.
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