Two former archaeology curators receive lifetime achievement awards
Florida Museum of Natural History curators emeritus Kathleen Deagan and Jerald Milanich were recently honored with 2015 lifetime achievement awards…Read More
Florida Museum curator emeritus named fellow in American Academy
Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…Read More
Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history
Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…Read More
Frolicking bears and other oddities
Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken…Read More
Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian life
The remnants of an Indian village destroyed by war almost two centuries ago reveal the Seminoles were actually blending into…Read More
Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the “Ancient Floridians” chapter of “Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,” by…Read More