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2019-2020 Season

August 2020 Dr. Steven Derfler, "Jerusalem: The Heart and Soul of the Kingdom of the Crusaders"
July 2020 Dr. Steven Derfler, "Crusader Castles: Krak de Chevaliers, Belvoir, Qaalat Nimrod"
June 2020
May 2020 Dr. Steven Derfler, "Archaeology & the Bible: Excavations of Nahal Yatir- A Biblical City"
April 2020
March 2020 Dr. Keith Ashley, "Mocama (Timucua) Indians and Spanish Missions: Life Beneath the Bell"
February 2020 Dr. Tom Pluckhahn, "Remembering Tocobaga: Recent Archaeology at the Safety Harbor Site in Tampa Bay"
January 2020 Smitty Smith, "Archaeology Year in Review"
December 2019
November 2019 David William Alberg, "Preserving a Lost WWII Battlefield off of North Carolina"
October 2019 Lindsey Morrison, M.A., "The Cow Cavalry: Florida Food for the Confederacy"
September 2019 Dr. David Miano, "The Great Pyramids of Giza: Separating Fact from Fiction"

2017 -2018 Season

AUGUST 2018 
JULY 2018 
JUNE 2018
MAY 2018  Dr. Uzi Baram, “Archaeology and Rising Sea Levels: Global Perspectives and Local Concerns”
APRIL 2018  Student Grant Winners
MARCH 2018  William Stanton, “Monumental Mound Complexes of Northwest Florida”
FEBRUARY 2018  Dr. Bernice Jones – “The Book of Esther”; John Jaffer – “The Holocaust in Gargzdai, Lithuania”
JANUARY 2018   Smitty Smith, “Archaeology Year in Review”
NOVEMBER 2017   Ron McCarty, “The Importance of the Ringling Legacy”  
OCTOBER 2017   Dr. Steven Derfler, “Excavating the Byzantine Church at Tel Kerioth”
SEPTEMBER 2017  Dr. David Miano, “The Trojan War: The Myth vs. The Reality”

2015 – 2016 Season

MAY 2016   Dr. Uzi Baram, “Rivers of Freedom, Landscapes of Liberty: An Update on “Looking for Angola” and the Archeology of Maroons of Florida”
APRIL 2016 20: Student Grant Winners
MARCH 2016   Michael Twitty,” Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic Sovereignty”
FEBRUARY 2016 Michael L. Jordan, “CSS Georgia: the Ladies Ironclad”
JANUARY 2016 Smitty Smith, “Archaeology Year in Review”
NOVEMBER 2015 18: Sandy Starr, “The Pre-Columbian Maize Deity: Art Historic Evidence for a Yucatan-Florida-Caribbean Connection”
OCTOBER 2015 21: Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, “The Future of the Past: How Virtual Technologies are Changing Archeology”
SEPTEMBER 2015 16: Dr. Bernice Jones, “Haute Couture in Ancient Greece: The Spectacular World of Aridane & Helen of Troy”

2013 – 2014 Season

MAY 2014 John Jaffer and Valerie Jackson Bell –“The Holocaust and The Lost Synagogue of Gargzdai”
APRIL 2014 Curt Bowen, Advanced Diver Magazine Foundation – “Hidden Relics”
MARCH 2014   Student Grant Winners
FEBRUARY 2014   Dr. Robert Tykot, “Bronze Age Sardinia”
JANUARY 2014   Smitty Smith, “Archaeology Year in Review”
DECEMBER 2013 Holiday Party
NOVEMBER 2013   Julie Langford, “Roman Imperial Women as Propaganda”
OCTOBER 2013   Sherry Svekis: “The History Beneath our Feet - Archaeology and the Manatee River Communities”
SEPTEMBER 2013   Marvin Mills: “The Temple Mount, a New Interpretation”

2018 - 2019 Season

August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019 Dr. Ryan Duggins, "Florida’s Submerged Prehistory: Investigating and Protecting Manasota Key Offshore"
April 2019 Dr. Steven Derfler, "Petra: The Rose-Red City as Old as Time"
March 2019 Dr. Jessi J. Halligan, "The Pre-Clovis Page-Ladson Site: Implications for Our Understanding of the First Americans"
February 2019 Dr. John Kantner, "Turquoise, Trumpets, and Tchamahias: The Wealth of Chaco Canyon"
January 2019 Smitty Smith, "Archaeology Year in Review"
December 2018
November 2018 Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, "The Rosewood Massacre"
October 2018 Dr. Laura Harrison, "The Bronze Age Archaeology of Seyitömer Mound in Turkey"
September 2018 Dr. Davide Tanasi, "Virtualizing World Heritage Sites in Sicily"

2016 – 2017 Season

MAY 2017   Dr. Adam King, “Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, GA”
APRIL 2017  Student Grant Winners
MARCH 2017  Dr. John Derden, “The Resurrection of Camp Lawton: the World’s Largest Prison”
FEBRUARY 2017   Terri Tumlin, “Cahokia Indians:  North America’s Forgotten City”
JANUARY 2017 Smitty Smith, “Archaeology Year in Review”
SEPTEMBER 2016  Ben Montgomery, “Ground Truth: The Notorious Dozier School for Boys”
OCTOBER 2016   Lori Lee, “Slavery and Health Practices in Nineteenth Century Virginia”
NOVEMBER2016   Dr. Steven Derfler, “Herod’s Mountaintop Monolith – Masada and Her Palaces”

2014 – 2015 Season

May 28-31, 2015  Florida Anthropological Society Conference, hosted by Time Sifters
MAY 2015  Dr. Gabrielle Vail
APRIL 2015 Student Grant Winners
MARCH 2015  Dr. Birgitta Wallace, “Vikings in North America”
FEBRUARY 2015  Dr. David Overstreet, “Northern Limits of Maize Cultivation as Evidenced from Menominee Indian Reservation Remains”
JANUARY 2015 Smitty Smith, “Archaeology Year in Review”
NOVEMBER 2014 Hermann Trappman and Elizabeth Neily
OCTOBER 2014  Dr. John Kantner, Chaco Canyon: “From the Outside Looking In”
SEPTEMBER 2014    Dr. Alison Elgart, “Bioarchaeology of a Prehistoric Burial Mound from Sarasota”

2012 – 2013 Season

MAY 2013  Maranda Almy Kles, M.A., M.S.: “Bioarchaeology in Sarasota and Beyond”.
APRIL 2013   Evelyn Mangie
MARCH 2013   Student Grant Winners
FEBRUARY 2013 Robert Bopp, Time Sifters Board member, “The Sacred Valley of the Incas”
JANUARY 2013   Nathan Lawres, M.A.: “Waging War the Seminole Way: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Evolution of Seminole Combat Behaviors”
NOVEMBER 2012   Brian Zepeda, Seminole Tribe of Florida: "Voices from Native Florida"
OCTOBER 2012   Ryan Murphy, "Hill Cottage Midden: A Monumental Achievement"
SEPTEMBER 2012   Jeff Moates, "Urban Archaeology in Ybor City"