Media and Public Lectures


2019 Setup at the Page-Ladson Site

Podcast Interviews

In the Media: National and International News Articles



Public and Keynote Talks

2022

  • Geoarchaeology Underwater: How Multiproxy Late Pleistocene Records from Florida’s Submerged Sinkholes Are Refining Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Models, Plenary Address AMQUA (American Quaternary Association) Biennial Meeting

  • Why Dive? How drowned landscapes are helping us understand the early colonization of the Americas" Presentation to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild https://youtu.be/GFUW-sBt9aQhttps://youtu.be/GFUW-sBt9aQ

2021

  • Dark Waters and Murky Models: Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas from Page-Ladson. Keynote Address Frison Institute Annual Meeting, University of Wyoming https://wyocast.uwyo.edu/WyoCast/Play/4fc194c6410e41c7b1ad06b9122fb43c1d

  • Down by the Waterline: Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas from Submerged Landscapes of Northwestern Florida. Presentation to Newcastle University (UK) Archaeological Science Series.

2020

  • Perspectives on the peopling of the Americas from Page Ladson and the Debra L. Friedkin sites: When, Where, How? And why do we not know yet? Presentation to Tulane University Archaeological Lunch Series.

  • Why Is the Aucilla River So Important to Understanding the Peopling of the Americas? How the underwater archaeology of drowned landscapes can answer big questions. Presentation at Waterworks Science Salon.

  • The Underwater Archaeology of the First Americans: How rising water has both helped and hindered what we can know about the colonization of the continent. Presentation to Florida State Marine Lab Science Café

2019

  • How the underwater Page-Ladson site fits into peopling of the Americas scenarios, Sponsored presenter at the D. Foster ewett Lecture Series, Annual Symposium at LeHigh University.

  • The First Floridians and the First Floods: How environmental changes have constrained Florida archaeology and how underwater archaeology promises to help. Presentation to the Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society. https://cgcas.org/november-2019-halligan/

  • The Pre-Clovis Page-Ladson Site: Implications for Our Understanding of the First Americans. Presentation to Time Sifters Archaeological Society.

  • What do we know and think we know about the first Americans? Presentation to Forbes Books and The Oxford Center of Entrepreneurship, Yulee, FL.

  • The impacts of sea level changes on the archaeology of Florida’s first people. Presentation to the Silver River Knap-in, Ocala Florida.

2018

  • At the water’s edge: How sea level rise has shaped what we know about Florida’s Paleoindians. Sponsored presenter at Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management Submerged Prehistory Workshop.

  • Rising waters and shifting sands: How terminal Pleistocene sea level rise has impacted what we know about the earliest Floridians. Presentation to the Saint Augustine Archaeological Association.

  • Drowned Deserts, Breached Beaches, and Sunken Springs: How sea level rise has impacted what we know about the First Floridians. Keynote address for Tidally United Summit, Sarasota, Florida.

  • Soggy Bottoms and Sandy Shores: Florida's Paleoindians and Site Preservation. Keynote presentation to Taylor County Historical Society, Perry, Florida.

  • Paleoindians in the Panhandle: Rewriting the History Books. Presentation to the Silver River Knap-in, Ocala Florida.

  • A View from the Blackwater Aucilla: How Florida’s Underwater Paleoindian Sites Are Providing Insights into the First Americans. Presentation at Ancient Explorers: Little Salt Spring and the Peopling of the Americas symposium organized by the University of Miami.

2017

  • Flowing Ponds and Rising Seas: How Sea Level Change Has Impacted Florida Archaeology. Presentation at FSU Library “Water” Colloquium.

  • Paleo Research in the Panhandle: Rewriting the History Books. Presentation to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission NW Region Meeting.

  • New Insights on the Peopling of the Americas and the Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla. Presentation to the Panhandle Archaeological Society of Tallahassee.

  • The First Americans in the Southeastern United States: How Florida’s Paleoindian Sites Are Changing Our Views of the Peopling of the Americas. Presentation to the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.

  • Black Water and Blue Chert: How Underwater Archaeology in Florida Is Changing Our Understanding of the Earliest Americans. Presentation to the FSU Board of Directors.

  • The Aucilla River and the First Americans. Presentation to St. Lawrence University Geological Field School.

2016

  • The Aucilla River and the First Americans. Presentation to the FSU Foundation.

  • First Americans in the Aucilla River. Presentation to the Free Thinkers Forum, Tallahassee FL.

  • Digging in the Dark: Geoarchaeology of Submerged Paleoindian Sites in Florida. Oregon State University Brown Bag Lecture Series.

  • How the Aucilla River of Florida is Changing First Americans Studies. Keynote lecture at Peopling of the Americas Symposium, Oregon State Museum, Bend, Oregon.

  • First Americans and Florida Rivers. Science Café presentation, Backwoods Crossing, Tallahassee, FL.

  • The Aucilla River and the Peopling of the Americas. Lecture to the Taylor County Historical Society, Perry, Florida.

  • Submerged Paleoindian Sites in the Aucilla River of Florida and First Americans Studies. Lecture given to the Apalachee Bay Yacht Club.

  • Digging in the Dark: How Submerged Paleoindian Sites in the Aucilla River of Florida are Illuminating First Americans Studies. FSU Marine Lab Lecture Series, Panacea, Florida.

2015

  • What Does the Future Hold for First Floridians Studies? Invited lecture at the First Floridians conference, Monticello, Florida.

2014

  • Underwater Research and the Peopling of the Americas. Invited lecture to Michigan Archaeology Brown Bag Series, Ann Arbor, MI.

  • Who Was Here First? Exploring the Peopling of the Americas. Lecture presented as part of Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center research series.

  • The First Americans: Breaking news on who, when where, and how. Lecture presented to the Charles E. Brown Chapter of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society Meeting.

  • New Insights on the First Americans. Keynote lecture presented to the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center Lithic Materials Workshop.