Lecturer: Dr. Eleni Bozia Associate Professor, Department of Classics Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group University of Florida Archaeology, epigraphy, and heritage sites point to and recall the past, and reasonably so. People usually turn to them for Instagram photos or contemplate on them because they are told that "history may not repeat itself, […]

Lecturer: Dr. Susan Gillespie Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida In 1942 and 1943, excavations revealed fabulous buried deposits of jade and other precious items in a very unexpected place: La Venta on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast, an area of swamps and tropical forest. These finds produced an “ecstatic” reaction in the world of archaeology […]

Lecturer: Dr. Charles Cobb Lockwood Chair in Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History 2025 UF Research Foundation Professor Over the last decade, research by a collaboration of archaeologists has made considerable strides toward identifying sites visited by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto’s army in the American Southeast (A.D. 1539-1543). In addition to […]