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Unearthing St. Augustine: America’s oldest city – Research News

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Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the classic cartoon may help children connect with nature, it popularizes the misconception that Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent European settlemen
The area was home to the Timucuan Indians.

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Whale Shark – Discover Fishes

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Rhincodon typus These sharks are recognizable not just for being the largest fish in the sea, but also for their unique patterns. They are filter feeders, often swimming near the surface of the open sea; they gulp in water and filter everything from plankton and fish eggs to crustaceans and schoo
The Indo-Pacific Ocean population ranges from the Western Indian Ocean, the Philippines

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Giant Clam – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Giant Clams can grow to be huge in nutrient-poor waters due to the help of tiny photosynthetic algae (zooxanthellae) that live in their body. The zooxanthellae gain protection by living on the giant clam, while the clam gains the carbon fixed by photosynthesis. Summary Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas
of the most conspicuous animals in shallow water coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian

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Florida Museum curator emeritus named fellow in American Academy – Research News

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Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Milanich is among 229 new fellows who join one of the nation’s most prestigious
decades of the 19th century (in Florida and the American West) and on the Seminole Indians

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Precolumbian Archaeology of the Turks and Caicos Islands – Caribbean Archaeology Program

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Baweka, translated from the Taino language as „Large Northern Basin,“ was the name for the Caicos Bank at the time of Columbus. From Abawana (Grand Turk) to Makobisa (West Caicos) the islands supported a thriving native population on the eve of European conquest. Nestled between the Bahama Islands
called Arawaks for the family in which their language is classified, Native West Indian

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Blue Coral – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Stony corals produce a white calcium carbonite skeleton, while Blue Corals have a unique pigment in their skeletons that gives them a deep blue color. Blue Corals have changed little over millions of years. Summary Blue Coral (Heliopora caerulea) From Pacific Ocean, mid-20th century
Blue Coral live only in the Indo-Pacific in the tropics of the Indian and Pacific

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Beaded Vest – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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In the 1800s, Native Americans began to produce objects to sell to tourists to support themselves while living on reservations. The most popular items were European styles made using traditional materials, and often contained symbolic icons from both cultures. Summary Beaded Vest Made by Sioux
artisan incorporated both horses – which were extremely important to the Plains Indians

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Effigy Head – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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The size of the head on this exceptional example of Veracruz art indicates it came from a figure that was quite large. Such figures have been interpreted as musicians or deities, or props in shamanic performances. Summary Effigy Head Made by Remojadas people, Veracruz, Mexico Dates to ~AD 550–
Pearsall’s collecting focused on North American Indian art in the late 19th and early

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