After routing de Soto, Chickasaws repurposed Spanish objects for everyday use
Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de…
Mission accessible: Florida’s historic Spanish missions go digital
Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched…
Fort Mose
Kathleen Deagan, a Distinguished Research Curator Emeritus of Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the Fort…
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…
Before the Pilgrims, Floridians celebrated the ‘real’ first Thanksgiving
It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our…
Public archaeology
Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists enlisted the help of the public as they returned to the remains of the…
The search for Chicaza
More than 300 years ago, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto set out from Spanish Florida on an expedition to…