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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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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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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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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Identifying Anthropogenic Soils from pre-Columbian Puerto Rico Scudder, S. J. (2001) Soil resources and anthropogenic changes at the Tibes Site, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 37(1-2):30-40. Abstract: Soil and landscape analyses were conducted at the pre-Columbian civic-ceremon
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Graduate students of the Environmental Archaeology Program (FLMNH-EAP) seek both Masters (MA and MSc) and PhD level degrees through various teaching departments of the University of Florida. Dr. Emery (Curator) and Dr. Walker (Research Scientist) are part of the University of Florida Graduate Facult
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National Park Service Collaborative Project Florida National Park Service Southeast Archaeology Project Principal Investigator: Irvy Quitmyer, 2011-2015 The Environmental Archaeology Program has recently entered into a collaborative research project with the National Park Service Southeast Arch
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Archaeobotany of the West Indies Lee Newsom studied native American use of plants in prehistoric West Indies (1993 University of Florida Dissertation). Lee Newsom and Elizabeth Wing are integrating the data with information on the plant and animal uses in the West Indies. This also relates to resea
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