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Bill Keegan

Pottery vessel against a white background

Cultural Heritage

Indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway

June 22, 2022

With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with…Read More

Tortoise shell on a black background

Cultural Heritage

Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise

April 25, 2022

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once…Read More

This Theodore Morris painting depicts a Taíno sitting at the entrance of a cave grilling fish over the fire.

Cultural Heritage

Not a pot to ‘cook’ in

November 1, 2021

Irving Rouse, the doyen of Caribbean archaeology, once estimated that pottery comprised 90% of all artifacts found in the region….Read More

people in canoes padding toward island

Cultural Heritage

Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people

December 23, 2020

The history of the Caribbean’s original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of…Read More

historical illustration

Cultural Heritage

Study puts the ‘Carib’ in ‘Caribbean,’ boosting credibility of Columbus’ cannibal claims

January 10, 2020

Christopher Columbus’ accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men – stories…Read More

animation of four Taíno brothers

News in Brief

Taíno origin story comes to life in animated video by TED-Ed, Museum archaeologist

November 5, 2019

Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologist William Keegan collaborated with TED-Ed to produce a video dramatization of how the world…Read More

A photo of a snail shell

Cultural Heritage

Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in A.D. 400

March 26, 2019

Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of “starvation food” eaten…Read More

A Caribbean cave

Features

Packing a suitcase for the future

November 27, 2018

As University of Florida archaeologist Bill Keegan studies the ancient Lucayan people, inhabitants of the Caribbean for hundreds of years,…Read More

diagram of related individuals

Cultural Heritage

A new look at kinship

January 16, 2018

The Florida Museum’s Bill Keegan, curator of Caribbean Archaeology, co-authored a paper asking bioarchaeologists to reevaluate traditional assumptions about kinship…Read More

sepia photo of an island from the water

Cultural Heritage

New book reveals untold history of pre-colonial Caribbean islands

January 12, 2017

A new book co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher examines the rich and distinct histories of the Caribbean islands before…Read More

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