Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
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Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1917
mlefebvre@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Collections & Programs
South Florida Archaeology & Ethnography
Other Affiliations
UF American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Program
Education
Ph.D., University of Florida
Research Interests
Historical ecology, island and coastal archaeology, environmental anthropology, biodiversity, cultural and biological heritage conservation, community engagement
Publications
Recent Research News
Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction
In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared…
Rodent extinctions in Hispaniola may have been caused by humans
The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest rodent diversity in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for…
Archaeologists awarded NSF grant to survey Florida cultural heritage sites damaged by Hurricane Ian
The National Science Foundation has awarded emergency funding to archaeologists at three institutions to survey cultural heritage sites damaged by…
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