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Jerald T. Milanich

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Awards & Honors

Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award

November 26, 2024

Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
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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…
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on dig site in '80s

Awards & Honors

Florida Museum curator emeritus named fellow in American Academy

April 21, 2010

Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Spanish Mission

Cultural Heritage

Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history

October 1, 2005

Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…
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deer hunting camp

Cultural Heritage

Frolicking bears and other oddities

June 5, 2005

Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken…
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Volunteer dig

Cultural Heritage

Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian life

June 1, 2004

The remnants of an Indian village destroyed by war almost two centuries ago reveal the Seminoles were actually blending into…
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Silver River sea grasses under water

Cultural Heritage

Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present

September 27, 1998

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the “Ancient Floridians” chapter of “Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,” by…
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