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Cultural Heritage

Pottery vessel against a white background

Cultural Heritage

Indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway

June 22, 2022

With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with…Read More

Cultural Heritage

The persistent effects of colonialism in Caribbean science

June 1, 2022

Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage…Read More

Tortoise shell on a black background

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Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise

April 25, 2022

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once…Read More

Taíno sisters and a child mold clay to make pottery and knead cassava dough for bread

Cultural Heritage

Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands

January 11, 2022

In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…Read More

This Theodore Morris painting depicts a Taíno sitting at the entrance of a cave grilling fish over the fire.

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Not a pot to ‘cook’ in

November 1, 2021

Irving Rouse, the doyen of Caribbean archaeology, once estimated that pottery comprised 90% of all artifacts found in the region….Read More

Charlie Cobb holds Chickasaw celt

Cultural Heritage

After routing de Soto, Chickasaws repurposed Spanish objects for everyday use

July 2, 2021

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de…Read More

books of color chips

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…Read More

people in canoes padding toward island

Cultural Heritage

Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people

December 23, 2020

The history of the Caribbean’s original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of…Read More

Calusa working

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…Read More

oysters

Cultural Heritage

During tough times, ancient ‘tourists’ sought solace in Florida oyster feasts

May 1, 2020

More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island on Florida’s Gulf…Read More

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