Florida Museum of Natural History curators emeritus Kathleen Deagan and Jerald Milanich were recently honored with 2015 lifetime achievement awards from the Sou...
It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our tables with stuffing and pumpkin pie the way mo...
Roman Catholic Church dignitaries gather as Waters, far right, discusses a newly discovered artifact. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace
Florida Museum archaeologists excavate state’s oldest stone mission church during St. Augustine 450th celebr...
A lost tribal village connects present, past
University of Florida anthropology student Kristen Hall digs during the summer 2015 excavation of a Chickasaw arc...
Large-scale excavations are underway in St. Augustine of the 337-year-old remains of one of the largest and most ornate churches known to Spanish Florida.
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Kathleen Deagan (center) shows the Fraser family a few of the recently discovered maps from the 1950s excavations in the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, St. Augustine, Florida. From left to right: John W. Fraser, Elaine Fraser, John W. Fraser...
Museum archaeologists Gifford Waters and Kathleen Deagan work at the Fountain of Youth site in St. Augustine. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace
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University of Florida archaeologists uncovered the remains of a more than 300-year-old building Friday in St. Augustine that may predate the famous Castillo de ...
A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally brought from Spain for other uses, just before abandoning the failed mining operation in 1...
Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine's fortified walls. Or maybe you are ...
