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Olive jar

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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…
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aerial view of a field with several excavation pits

Cultural Heritage

St. Augustine: First Colony

January 4, 2014

Florida Museum of Natural History Distinguished Research Curator Kathleen Deagan discusses research at St. Augustine, FL, where she has worked…
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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…
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Jaguar Paw Temple

Cultural Heritage

Earliest use of Mexican turkeys by ancient Maya

September 14, 2012

As a University of Florida graduate student, one of Erin Thornton’s first assignments was to identify turkey bones from an…
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Two researchers look over a fossil

Cultural Heritage

Early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts

May 3, 2012

A new Florida Museum study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during…
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Susan Milbrath

Climate Change

Using tree-ring data to test climate events

February 1, 2012

The events were depicted in ancient Mesoamerican codex In ancient Mesoamerica, as the Aztec calendar predicted the end of the…
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swift creek pottery sample

Cultural Heritage

Archaeologist receives grant to analyze Swift Creek pottery

September 13, 2011

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Neill Wallis recently received a $55,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze and digitally…
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clam shell cross section

Climate Change

Shedding light on ancient climate change

September 1, 2011

The mysterious appearance of numerous ancient duck bones dating to the sixth century at the Pineland archaeological site on Pine…
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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…
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swift creek pottery sample

Cultural Heritage

New book sheds light on importance of pottery to early peoples

February 1, 2011

A new book by a Florida Museum researcher challenges traditional theories about the exchange of prehistoric pottery and its value…
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