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A new study by EAP alumna Ashley Sharpe and colleagues tracks how the ancient Maya used animals for food, ritual and as curiosities. See the story in Smithsonian Magazine and the related publication in PLOS One.
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Copan (University of Pennsylvania) Archaeology Project, Honduras Project Zooarchaeologist: Kitty Emery Can we reconstruct the pomp, ceremony, and rituals surrounding the death and burial of the founding rulers of the site of Copan? What were the animal foods these brave souls took with them as
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Collection manager of the EAP Nicole Cannarozzi is a member of the steering committee for a newly awarded NSF Research Coordination Network grant lead by Michal Kowalewski, Thompson Chair of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Florida Museum. The grant will focus on better integrating the field of cons
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Tracking Llama and Alpaca Herding and Trade in the Southern Andes Llamas and alpacas (camelids) were a subsistence and economic mainstay of Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000) and more recent cultures in the Peruvian Andes. However, despite their economic and cultural importance, prehistoric foddering p
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Arianne Boileau, a PhD student in the Environmental Archaeology Program was awarded the 2020 Graduate School Mentoring Award awarded by the UF Graduate School’s Division of Graduate Student Affairs. Arianne says, „I have learned that great mentors are available for their mentees, communicate scie
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Faunal Exploitation and Translocation at Carriacou, Grenadines Grand Bay coast (Photo by Scott M. Fitzpatrick) Michelle LeFebvre has spent several years conducting fieldwork on Carriacou, a Grenadine island in the Lesser Antilles. All work on Carriacou has been a multi-institution effort, with P
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With more than 2.4 million cataloged specimens of about 9,000 species, the Florida Museum Ichthyology Collection is one of the largest in the world.* Though worldwide in scope, the collections contain specimens from Florida, the Southeast U.S., South America and Southeast Asia, and a variety from th
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In collaboration with the Florida Museum Digital Imaging Division, the Environmental Archaeology Program’s Fish Skulls Photogrammetry Project focuses on capturing detailed 3D images of neurocrania from select taxa of fishes curated in our skeletal reference collection. This project is ongoing and li
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Aguateca Archaeological Project Project Zooarchaeologist: Kitty Emery What did the Maya nobility do with their animals? Did they eat fancy meats and exotic shellfish? Did they display „trophy heads“ like big-game hunters today? Did they buy only the best bone needles? Did they wear only the fa
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Life Before Columbus at En Bas Saline, Haiti Central Mound archaeological features Zooarchaeological materials from the En Bas Saline site, located in present day Haiti, are the primary focus of dissertation research by Michelle LeFebvre. En Bas Saline is a particularly unique site in the Cari
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