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New study pinpoints U.S. as source of worldwide fire ant invasions – Research News

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The sweet smells of spring fill the air as more and more people head to parks and playgrounds to enjoy the weather. While the air grows warmer and the promise of summer quickly approaches, picnic-goers and adventure-seekers head outdoors, facing the risks that come with it – from sunburns and allerg
fire ants currently infest more than 310 million acres of land in the U.S. and Puerto

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Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction – Research News

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In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds. Working with fossils and archaeological specimens, they showed that two species thought to be endemic to particular islands were on
Most of the fragmentary fossils collected outside of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico were

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Disease & Disaster – St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City

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Epidemic diseases ravaged both Indians and Spaniards through the seventeenth century. Between 1614 and 1617 friars estimated that nearly half of the Timucua Indians died. Yellow fever became epidemic in 1649, killing Spaniards and Indians alike. A smallpox outbreak occurred in 1655, and killed all
Augustine formed a black militia in 1673, and this soldier is from the Puerto Rico

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Cero Mackerel – Discover Fishes

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Scomberomorus regalis This solitary torpedo-shaped fish is streamlined and strong, with finlets running between the prominent second dorsal and anal fins, and the crescent caudal (tail) fin. It is a green-blue from above, and mostly silvery white except for brassy spots and streaks on its sides n
during April through October off Jamaica, and year round off the coast of Florida, Puerto

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White Grunt – Discover Fishes

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Haemulon plumierii These schooling reef fish have almond shaped bodies with pointed snouts and forked caudal (tail) fins. They are generally silvery white or cream, with touches of bronze or yellow, and striped with blue at their heads. Their mouths are red, and they make a grunting noise by grin
with peaks occurring during May and June off Florida, August and September off Puerto

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Publications – Environmental Archaeology

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Selected EA Publications Reprints of published material are available on request to the individual authors. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z A Arnold, W. S., T. M. Bert, I. R. Quitmyer and D. S. Jones (1997) Contemporaneous Dep
Middle Caicos Carriacou En Bas Saline, Haiti Caribbean Faunal Exploitation Puerto

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Publications and grant support – Digital Imaging Division

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Publications resulting from work performed at the Digital imaging division Paluh, D.J., Dillard, W.A., Stanley, E.L., Fraser, G.J. and Blackburn, D.C., 2021. Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs. Evolution. Open Access: Download here
The earliest record of Caribbean frogs: a fossil coquí from Puerto Rico

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Animal Remains – Environmental Archaeology

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Zooarchaeology at the Lake Monroe Outlet Midden (8VO53) By Irvy R. Quitmyer Late in the Pleistocene epoch (ca. 14,000 B.P. – Before Present), Paleoindians entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia. They spread across the landscape moving as far south as present day T
Middle Caicos Carriacou En Bas Saline, Haiti Caribbean Faunal Exploitation Puerto

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Catch of the day – Research News

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Contrary to our current dilemma, the Taino always knew where their fish came from „Here, the fishes are so unlike ours that it is amazing; there are some like dorados, of the brightest colors in the world—blue, yellow, red, multi-colored, colored in a thousand ways, and the colors so bright tha
barracuda tooth pendant was excavated from a site on the Rio Tanama in western Puerto

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