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Historical Archaeology

16th century map of Spanish Florida and Cuba

Collections

Mission accessible: Florida’s historic Spanish missions go digital

December 20, 2019

Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched…Read More

Jerald Milanich

Awards & Honors

Two former archaeology curators receive lifetime achievement awards

April 8, 2016

Florida Museum of Natural History curators emeritus Kathleen Deagan and Jerald Milanich were recently honored with 2015 lifetime achievement awards…Read More

Gifford Waters

Cultural Heritage

Before the Pilgrims, Floridians celebrated the ‘real’ first Thanksgiving

November 18, 2015

It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our…Read More

sun rise over Mantanzas Bay

Cultural Heritage

Public archaeology

October 17, 2015

Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists enlisted the help of the public as they returned to the remains of the…Read More

Charles Cobb displays a pottery sherd

Cultural Heritage

The search for Chicaza

August 13, 2015

More than 300 years ago, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto set out from Spanish Florida on an expedition to…Read More

foundation of the Nombre de Dios church in St. Augustine

Cultural Heritage

Unearthing a rare stone mission church in St. Augustine

May 27, 2014

Large-scale excavations are underway in St. Augustine of the 337-year-old remains of one of the largest and most ornate churches…Read More

Olive jar

Collections

97,000 newly acquired artifacts tell story of America’s Spanish past

March 13, 2014

Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological…Read More

Gifford Waters and Kathy Deagan

Cultural Heritage

Unearthing St. Augustine: America’s oldest city

December 12, 2012

Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the…Read More

Gifford Waters on site

Cultural Heritage

Researchers unearth only stone mission church in St. Augustine

June 2, 2011

University of Florida archaeologists uncovered the remains of a more than 300-year-old building Friday in St. Augustine that may predate…Read More

musket ball

Cultural Heritage

Early Columbus settlement was desperate to find metals

February 22, 2007

A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from…Read More

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