Students unearth rare, centuries-year-old pot at local mission site
Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a…
Archaeologists upload the history of North America’s oldest colonial city
The city of St. Augustine, Florida, has the distinction of being continuously occupied longer than any other European settlement in…
Students unearth archaeology, life skills and fun in robotics competition
This weekend, over 400 elementary and middle school students carrying Lego robots will gather in Alachua, Florida, to compete in…
Tempered by time, Choctaw pottery connects ancestral past with living present
Key Points Archaeologists rely on pottery artifacts to understand the everyday lives of the people who made them. Analyzing the…
Archaeologists use X-rays to distinguish iron from different periods of America’s colonial past
Key points Iron artifacts from early Spanish expeditions in North America often look too similar to tell apart, making it…
Charles Cobb named UF Research Foundation 2025 professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 35 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF…
New book explores the history of cattle in the Americas
A new book by Nicolas Delsol, a courtesy faculty member and former researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…