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South Florida Archaeology & Ethnography Collection

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Awards & Honors

Michelle LeFebvre receives 2024 UF excellence award for assistant professors

June 28, 2024

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Michelle LeFebvre is a recipient of this year’s University of Florida excellence awards for…
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Awards & Honors

Florida Museum graduate students receive NSF GRFP award, honorable mentions

April 14, 2023

The National Science Foundation has announced the recipients and honorable mentions of its 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards, which…
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Grants & Initiatives

Archaeologists awarded NSF grant to survey Florida cultural heritage sites damaged by Hurricane Ian

December 19, 2022

The National Science Foundation has awarded emergency funding to archaeologists at three institutions to survey cultural heritage sites damaged by…
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Hires & Promotions

Jennifer Green joins the Florida Museum as new archaeology collections manager

March 31, 2022

Jennifer Green grew up surrounded by the sub-tropical diversity of Southern Florida, where she spent most of her time exploring…
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Hires & Promotions

Annisa Karim joins Randell Research Center as new operations manager

July 22, 2021

Annisa Karim has always nurtured a fondness for the natural world. In her hometown of Nairobi, Kenya, Karim’s father took…
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Cultural Heritage

Human eye beats machine in archaeological color identification test

February 9, 2021

A ruler and scale can tell archaeologists the size and weight of a fragment of pottery – but identifying its…
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Cultural Heritage

Investigating the Calusa

September 25, 2020

The Calusa may have been the only ancient people in North America who established a kingdom without practicing agriculture. Their…
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Calusa meeting Spanish ships

Cultural Heritage

Archaeologists verify Florida’s Mound Key as location of elusive Spanish fort

April 23, 2020

Florida and Georgia archaeologists have discovered the location of Fort San Antón de Carlos, home of one of the first…
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Cultural Heritage

Sophisticatedly engineered ‘watercourts’ stored live fish, fueling Florida’s Calusa kingdom

March 30, 2020

The mighty Calusa ruled South Florida for centuries, wielding military power, trading and collecting tribute along routes that sprawled hundreds…
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Cultural Heritage

Hungry for hutia? Our taste for Bahamas’ ‘most peaceable rodent’ shaped its diversity

January 28, 2020

The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food…
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