Jerald T. Milanich
Encyclopedia
Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American
culture in Florida
. He is the curator of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
at the University of Florida
in Gainesville; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida; and Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Milanich holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Florida
.
In 2005, Milanich won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council.
Milanich's research interests include Eastern United States archeology, precolumbian Southeastern U.S. native peoples, and colonial period native American-European/Anglo relations in the America. In May 1987 he was cited in a New York Times article:
Milanich is married to anthropologist Maxine Margolis
.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
culture in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. He is the curator of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Florida Museum of Natural History
The Florida Museum of Natural History is the State of Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural history museum. Its main facilities are located on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida....
at the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
in Gainesville; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida; and Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Milanich holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
.
In 2005, Milanich won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council.
Milanich's research interests include Eastern United States archeology, precolumbian Southeastern U.S. native peoples, and colonial period native American-European/Anglo relations in the America. In May 1987 he was cited in a New York Times article:
Milanich is married to anthropologist Maxine Margolis
Maxine Margolis
Maxine L. Margolis is an American anthropologist and an inductee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida in Gainsville, and has been with the University since 1970. Margolis holds a Ph...
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Books
- With Samuel Proctor, editors. Tacachale: essays on the Indians of Florida and southeastern Georgia during the historic period. The University Presses of Florida. (1978)
- First Encounters: Spanish explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570. University of Florida Press. (1989)
- Earliest Hispanic/Native American interactions in the American Southeast. Garland. (1991)
- With Charles Hudson. Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida. University Press of Florida. (1993)
- Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. University Press of Florida. (1994)
- The Timucua. Blackwell Publications, Oxford, UK. (1996)
- Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe. The University Press of Florida. (1998)
- Florida Indians from Ancient Times to the Present. The University Press of Florida. (1998)
- 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 (1999)
- Florida's Lost Tribes—Through the Eyes of an Artist Gainesville, University Press of Florida. (With artist Theodore Morris.) (2004)
- Archaeology of northern Florida, A.D. 200-900: the McKeithen Weeden Island culture. (2004)
- Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida. Gainesville, University Press of Florida (2005)
- Laboring in the fields of the Lord: Spanish missions and southeastern Indians. University Press of Florida. (2006)