Current Faculty and Staff Dr. Kitty F. Emery Curator E-mail: kemery@floridamuseum.ufl.edu Dr. Kitty F. Emery is the curator responsible for the Environmental Archaeology Program. Emery is an environmental archaeologist who specializes in ancient Mesoamerican peoples and environments. Her researc
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Emblemaria pandionis This small fish has a long, scaleless body and a large, distinct dorsal fin that tends to be larger on males. Their blunt faces are topped with a cirrus above each eye and next to the nostrils. They live in clear, shallow water along rocky shores or reefs where there is rubbl
blenny The sailfin blenny is found in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Bahamas, Puerto
Bulletin of the Allyn Museum The Bulletin of the Allyn Museum (ISSN-0097-3211) is a peer-reviewed intermittent publication of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. The Bulletin was originally published by
The taxonomic status of Pseudochrysops (Lycaenidae) on Puerto Rico. 5 pp., ill.
After a comprehensive study of plants across the United States, researchers have arrived at the unexpected conclusion that plants able to fix atmospheric nitrogen are most diverse in arid regions of the country. This finding runs counter to the prevailing assumption that nitrogen-fixers should be co
native and invasive species from more than 40 sites across the U.S., including Puerto
Archaeobotany at the Lake Monroe Outlet Midden (8VO53) By Donna L. Ruhl Archaeobotany is the study of plant remains from archaeological sites. It is both the science and the art of recovering, identifying, and interpreting how plant remains were used in the past at archaeological sites. Archaeobot
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Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of “starvation food” eaten in times when other resources were lacking. Now, a University of Florida study suggests these shells may be evidence of children helping with the grocery shopping
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Lutjanus synagris These almond-shaped reef fish usually find a favorite location and don’t stray far from it their entire lives. They’re pink-red on top, with yellow to red fins, and they have silvery bodies with pink to yellow lines running from end to end. Although they generally grow to about
spawning occurs from March through September with peaks in July and August, while in Puerto
The Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the oldest U.S. military installation on foreign soil. It was established at the end of the Spanish-American war and celebrated its centennial in 2003. Although it recently was relegated to what the Navy terms “minimum pillar” or its lowest level of operati
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An Overview of a Middle – Late Archaic Period Site in the Upper St. Johns River Valley. by Elizabeth Horvath The Lake Monroe Outlet Midden is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Monroe in Volusia County, FL, where the St. Johns River narrows back into its channel after widening to become the
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Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking ware and earthen vessels. Archaeologist Ann Cordell has spent her entire career studying this material, from the oldest pottery made in North America 4,500 years ago t
Caribbean regularly seek her expertise and have asked her to study pottery from Cuba, Puerto
