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Kathy Deagan

Liz Wing studies animal remains at a lab bench

Cultural Heritage

Liz Wing: A portrait in persistence

March 5, 2020

Elizabeth “Liz” Wing arrived at the University of Florida in the mid-1950s with little more than a suitcase, less than…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

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

Waters using sieve

Cultural Heritage

Old Spanish mission found near Gainesville

February 1, 2007

Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of…Read More

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