Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award
Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
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Two former archaeology curators receive lifetime achievement awards
Florida Museum of Natural History curators emeritus Kathleen Deagan and Jerald Milanich were recently honored with 2015 lifetime achievement awards…
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Florida Museum curator emeritus named fellow in American Academy
Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history
Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…
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Frolicking bears and other oddities
Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken…
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Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian life
The remnants of an Indian village destroyed by war almost two centuries ago reveal the Seminoles were actually blending into…
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Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the “Ancient Floridians” chapter of “Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,” by…
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