Jerald T. Milanich

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Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is Curator in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainsville; 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 archaeology; precolumbian Southeastern U.S. native peoples; Colonial period native American-European/Anglo relations in the America. In May 1987 he was cited in a New York Times article " De Soto's Trail: Courage and Cruelty Come Alive and Experts Debate Theory on Columbus

Milanich is married to anthropologist Maxine Margolis.

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[edit] Recent Books

  • Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida. Gainesville, University Press of Florida (2005)
  • Florida's Lost Tribes--Through the Eyes of an Artist Gainesville, University Press of Florida. (With artist Theodore Morris.) (2004)
  • 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 Indians From Ancient Times to the Present Gainesville, University Press of Florida (1998)

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