Staff Spotlight
Dr. Jerald T. Milanich
Curator Emeritus in Archaeology
Email: jtm@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, 1971
FLMNH Florida Archaeology Collection
Concurrent Appointments
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies
Research Interests
Eastern United States archaeology; precolumbian Southeastern U.S. native peoples; Colonial period native American-European/Anglo relations in the America.
Staff
Elise LeCompte - Registrar, Anthropology Range
Ann Cordell - Staff Archaeologist/Director, Ceramics Technology Laboratory
Representative Publications
Books:
2005. Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida. Gainesville, University Press of Florida.
2004. Florida's Lost Tribes--Through the Eyes of an Artist. Gainesville, University Press of Florida. (With artist Theodore Morris.)
1999. Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press.
1999. Famous Florida Sites--Mt. Royal and Crystal River. Gainesville, University Press of Florida.
1998. Florida's Indians From Ancient Times to the Present. Gainesville, University Press of Florida.
Articles:
2005. Spaniards and Native Americans at the Missions of La Florida. In Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America, edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson, Jr., pp.19-24. Gainesville: University Press of Florida/Society for Historical Archaeology.
2004. Timucua. In Southeast. Vol. 14. Handbook of North American Indians, pp. 219-228. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
2004. Prehistory of the Lower Atlantic Coast after 500 BC. In Southeast. Vol. 14. Handbook of North American Indians, pp.229-237. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
2002. "A Very Great Harvest of Souls": Timucua Indians and the Impact of European Colonization. In Anthropology, History, and American Indians: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant, edited by William L. Merrill and Ives Goddard. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 44:113-120. Washington, D.C.