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Bill Keegan

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

Education & Outreach

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

Education & Outreach

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

engraving of Columbus landing in the caribbean

Cultural Heritage

History Re-written: Christopher Columbus and the cannibals

March 9, 2015

Editor’s note: Five years after this story published, new evidence lent credibility to Columbus’ cannibal claims, changing researchers’ thinking on…Read More

Green sea turtle swimming on reef

Cultural Heritage

Mother Sea Turtle

November 1, 2008

An archaeological site in the Caribbean provides prehistoric evidence of overhunting green sea turtles. The Cayman Islands, just south of…Read More

parrot fish dinner

Cultural Heritage

Catch of the day

June 1, 2008

Contrary to our current dilemma, the Taino always knew where their fish came from “Here, the fishes are so unlike…Read More

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