Cultural Heritage Stories & Videos
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Research News
Investigating the Calusa
Researchers share their work on the Calusa who established a large kingdom in South Florida without relying on agriculture.
Video Story
The Taino myth of the cursed creator
Archaeologist William Keegan shares how the world came to be, as told by the Taíno, an indigenous people of the Caribbean.
Research News
Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands
How did the first people inhabiting the Turks and Caicos Islands make pottery from scratch with limited resources available?
Video Story
The Woodpecker Story: An Indigenous Parable
Archaeologist William Marquardt tells the Seminole parable of the woodpecker as a trickster featuring the Calusa woodpecker painting.
Florida History
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Online Exhibit
St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City
Discover the first colony's history through archaeology, history and the stories of people who lived there.
Online Exhibit
Fort Mose
Colonial America’s Black Fortress of Freedom - More than 250 years ago, enslaved Africans found freedom among the Spanish living at St. Augustine.
Online Exhibit
Women of the Everglades
In the early 1900s, three influential Florida women, inspired by three different causes, laid the foundation for Everglades conservation.
Online Exhibit
Down Like Lead
400 Years of Florida Shipwrecks - The water surrounding Florida is a graveyard for thousands of ships.
Cultural Heritage Galleries & Guides
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Collection Feature
Seminole Doll Collection
The Seminole and Miccosukee doll collection is comprised of over 300 dolls covering nearly 70 years of history.
Online Guide
Bullen Projectile Point Type Gallery
A searchable reference tool of over 620 projectile points dating from the Paleoindian period to the Contact Period in Florida.
Collection Feature
Seminole Basket Collection
The Seminole and Miccosukee basket collection consists of 38 baskets made from a variety of materials.
Collection Feature
Faunal Fishhook Gallery
These bone and ivory fishhooks were found in Florida rivers where they were used by early people.
Archaeology & Ethnography Museum Collections
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Museum Collection
Historical Archaeology
These collections contain more than 2 million excavated specimens from more than 100 sites throughout Florida and Latin America.
Museum Collection
Florida Archaeology
This collection includes artifacts spanning 12,000 years of human history in the Southeast United States with a focus on Florida.
Museum Collection
South Florida Archaeology
The collections and associated research tradition represent the broad continuum of Indigenous groups in Florida, from precontact times to the present.
Museum Collection
Environmental Archaeology
These collections include modern comparative and archaeological specimens of zoological, botanical, and pedological materials.
Cultural Center
Randell Research Center
The Center is dedicated to the study, teaching, and conservation of Florida’s cultural and natural heritage, including the archaeology, history, ecology, and biodiversity of coastal southwest Florida.
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