UF archaeologists study how “In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty”.
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Elling Eide Professor Aaron Broadwell and Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky share with readers of Smithsonian Magazine how Indigenous speakers of Timucua in Spanish colonial Florida were actively writing translations of their language in the Roman alphabet taught to them by Spanish missionaries. Read the full story here.
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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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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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Dr. Kim Valenta recently published a paper on the unusual nutritional qualities of a pantropical flowering tree, Symphonia globulifera. Although red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the mountains of East Africa seldom consume large quantities of flowers as part of their regular diets, each spring magnificent bright red flower displays from S. globulifera, a tree that […]
UF’s Explore Magazine features Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield’s incredible work in Tulsa, OK – Read “Digging for The Truth: Finding graves helps Tulsa bury its ghosts” here!
Dr. Gabriel Prieto’s research at Huanchaco/Huanchaquito in Peru has been named one of the top 10 discoveries of the decade by Archaeology Magazine. Read more here: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/406-2101/features/9262-top-10-discoveries-of-the-decade Congratulations, Dr. Prieto, for this incredible honor and important work!
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Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma Dean David Richardson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosted a panel discussion titled, “Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma,” on November 12 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Lance Gravlee joined two distinguished CLAS faculty members, Dr. Della V. Mosley, co-founder of […]
More about this book: “Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing […]