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Late Paleo-Indian Early Holocene epoch; Dalton and Bolen points 12000-8000 B.C.
Come to the Museum’s Science Cafés for engaging conversation about a variety of science topics. A comfortable atmosphere provides the setting for lively discussions. Our Cafés are hosted at local restaurants that offer special menus for the event. As space is limited for these FREE programs.
Science Café: The Yamasee Indians Jan 5, 2017 Topic: Dislocations and Migrations
When you think of zombies, if you do, you probably envision the movie Night of the Living Dead, with its decomposing bodies escaping from their tombs to march though the darkness in slow, unstoppable formations eager to capture the living. But, not surprisingly, this is a Hollywood image that bears
So while other West Indian nations were evolving under the careful eye of European
More than 300 years ago, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto set out from Spanish Florida on an expedition to explore North America. Archaeologists have long debated the exact path he took and what occurred during his journey along the ‘De Soto Trail,’ but at least one point is undisputed: de
Soto Trail,’ but at least one point is undisputed: de Soto encountered Chickasaw Indians
Turtle Grass (Thalassia testudinum) Turtle grass is the most common of seagrasses off the coast of Florida and throughout the Caribbean. It also occurs in Bermuda, and south from the Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela. The grass blades are flat and ribbon-like, growing to 14 inches (35.5 cm) long and ½ in
It is also found off of portions of South America, northwestern Africa, Indian Ocean
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
December 19, 2023 Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian
The establishment of Charleston by the English in 1670, and the threat of occupation by the pirate Robert Searles finally made the Spanish Crown willing to invest seriously in St. Augustine as a strategic military point in Spain’s protection of her Caribbean possessions. The construction of a stone
Nearly the entire population—Spaniards, Christian Indians and Africans—left St.
An introductory list of resources on Caribbean archaeology with information on pottery in the region: Allsworth-Jones, P. 2008 Pre-Columbian Jamaica. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Berman, Mary Jane, and Perry L. Gnivecki 1995 The Colonization of the Bahama Archipelago: A R
Keegan, William F. 2007 Taino Indian Myth and Practice.
It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve learned just about everything about them by now. But talk to a marine biologist, and they will quickly
They collected tissue from more than 4,400 soft corals throughout the Pacific and Indian
The Zooarchaeology of Herman’s Bay Project Director: Irv Quitmyer Herman’s Bay Midden (8SL1146) is located in St. Lucie County, Florida on Hutchinson Island. The midden is perched along a beach dune line in full view of the Atlantic Ocean to the east and a well-developed estuarine system of the
of the Atlantic Ocean to the east and a well-developed estuarine system of the Indian
