A queen’s final feast
In 426 AD, a noble we now know as K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’ (Great Sun First Quetzal Macaw), arrived in…
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Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history
Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…
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Frolicking bears and other oddities
Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken…
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St. Lucia bypassed during initial settlement of the Anitilles
To the west stretched the vast expanse of the Caribbean Sea; to the north rose the magnificent Pitons, the symbol…
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Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian life
The remnants of an Indian village destroyed by war almost two centuries ago reveal the Seminoles were actually blending into…
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Research sheds light on Lake Monroe inhabitants
A team of specialists from the Florida Museum of Natural History Environmental Archaeology Program has identified the Archaic people of…
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Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the “Ancient Floridians” chapter of “Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,” by…
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