The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2019 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student research and significant contribution...
The ancient Maya are not particularly known for their love of freshwater mussels. Mathematics, maize, pyramids and human sacrifice, yes. But bivalves? Not so mu...
UF archaeologist uses Chicxulub ‘dinosaur crater’ rocks, prehistoric teeth to track ancient humans
These rocks from the Chicxulub 'dinosaur crater' were used ...
Ancient bones reveal the lives of the Mayan working class
Museum doctoral student Ashley Sharpe examines a piece of marine shell made into an ornament. The ar...
As a University of Florida graduate student, one of Erin Thornton’s first assignments was to identify turkey bones from an ancient Mayan archaeological site in ...
Shell artifacts dating to the Late Classic (750 - 800 A.D.), excavated from Aguateca, that were in the process of being crafted into beads called "tinklers" th...
To the Maya, throwing away the bones of hunted animals is as wasteful as throwing away the entire animal itself. In fact, it's pretty much one and the same.
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When Kitty Emery goes hunting for large-game, she doesn't have to wait for the right season, because the animals that Emery hunts are already dead. And her hunt...
Ritual animal remains from Copan's Margarita structure analyzed
The fascinating serving vessel for the turkey was decorated with this small figure holding a l...
