97,000 newly acquired artifacts tell story of America’s Spanish past
Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological…
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St. Augustine: First Colony
Florida Museum of Natural History Distinguished Research Curator Kathleen Deagan discusses research at St. Augustine, FL, where she has worked…
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Unearthing St. Augustine: America’s oldest city
Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the…
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Earliest use of Mexican turkeys by ancient Maya
As a University of Florida graduate student, one of Erin Thornton’s first assignments was to identify turkey bones from an…
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Early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
A new Florida Museum study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during…
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Using tree-ring data to test climate events
The events were depicted in ancient Mesoamerican codex In ancient Mesoamerica, as the Aztec calendar predicted the end of the…
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Archaeologist receives grant to analyze Swift Creek pottery
Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Neill Wallis recently received a $55,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze and digitally…
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Shedding light on ancient climate change
The mysterious appearance of numerous ancient duck bones dating to the sixth century at the Pineland archaeological site on Pine…
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Researchers unearth only stone mission church in St. Augustine
University of Florida archaeologists uncovered the remains of a more than 300-year-old building Friday in St. Augustine that may predate…
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New book sheds light on importance of pottery to early peoples
A new book by a Florida Museum researcher challenges traditional theories about the exchange of prehistoric pottery and its value…
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