With the support of faculty mentors, nine Anthropology undergraduate majors garner funding for research projects spanning the breadth of the discipline.
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In his latest book, Crossing the Current, Professor Richard Kernaghan asks what happens to the lay of landscapes in the Upper Huallaga Valley of Peru once a prolonged period of political and social turbulence has ostensibly passed.
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We invite you to a public conversation with Chief Afukaka Kuikuro, the Paramount Chief of the Kuikuro Indigenous Nation along the southern fringes of the Brazilian Amazon. Chief Afukaka will discuss his views on collaborations with archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and other scientists over the past three decades.
We are pleased to recognize an outstanding group of students, all of whom had degrees conferred on December 16th, 2022: Terry Barbour’s dissertation is titled “The View Source Side Shell Bead Production along Florida’s Gulf Coast.” Randee Fladeboe was awarded the doctorate for her dissertation, “Reconstructing the Lives of Macaws in the Prehistoric Southwestern United […]
Ph.D. Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Materiality and Historical Ecology of Earth Mounds: The Colina da Monte Site (India Muerta Wetlands, Uruguary).” Rocío’s research examines how and why mid-to late-Holocene societies in southeast Uruguay carried out […]
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Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bartz was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “Hunter-Gatherer Foodways in the American Southeast: Organic Residue Analysis of Stalling Period Pottery of the Middle Savannah River Valley.” Emily’s research employs organic residue analysis (ORA) to chemically analyze the resources processed within North America’s earliest pottery […]
Congratulations to Dr. George Aaron Broadwell, the winner of the 2022 Victor Golla Prize from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. The Victor Golla Prize is presented in recognition of a significant history of both linguistic scholarship and service to the scholarly community, with service that expands the quality […]
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Dr. George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor, Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), have a new journal article “Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”, which appears in the inaugural edition of The New American Antiquarian. The earliest texts from Florida come from a corpus of Timucua language materials published between 1612 and […]
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The University of Florida Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-accruing position in archaeology at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning August 16, 2023.