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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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Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award – Research News

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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

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Overview – Environmental Archaeology

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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
Middle Caicos Carriacou En Bas Saline, Haiti Caribbean Faunal Exploitation Puerto

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Wonder & Grow with Books Pt 1 – For Educators

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I’m the friend that those close to me come to for book recommendations. I love being this friend, but it also presents its challenges. First, how do I know the book I loved will be good for my friend? Everyone approaches a story with their own set of past experiences and current states of mind. I
when I read a book but I’ll always remembering diving into this one on a trip to Puerto

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Soils – Environmental Archaeology

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Archaeopedology at the Lake Monroe Outlet Midden (8VO53) By Sylvia J. Scudder The Site Setting Volusia County, FL is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by the St. Johns River. The landscape is formed from a series of beach ridges and terraces that accumulated tens of thousa
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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
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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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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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