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03/20/2026

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03/06/2020

AHC archaeologist Odlanyer Hernández de Lara will be giving a talk about the archaeological project we are working on with the Gabinete de Arqueologia, led by Dr. Lisette Roura Alvarez

Florida Indians in Cuba: an archaeological project in Guanabacoa
March 26, 2020 at 6:00pm
Palm Beach County Library (3650 Summit Blvd. West Palm Beach, 33406)

Thanks to the Palm Beach County Archaeological Society for the invitation!

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12/17/2019

About one of our current projects in Palm Beach!

The skeletal remains of an early Native American adult and child have been discovered on the property of the historic Duck’s Nest residence.The bone

12/10/2019

A paper (in Spanish) by Dr. Lisette Roura Alvarez and Odlanyer Hernández de Lara about our project in Cuba with the Gabinete de Arqueologia was just published in Dominican Republic. An artifact associated to Florida Indians was found within the urban core of Guanabacoa, dating to the 18th century.

05/16/2019

Check out the 2019 edition of Adventures in Florida Archaeology, by the Florida Historical Society, where we published two articles about the Miami Circles and a historic boatyard in West Palm Beach:

The 2019 edition of Adventures in Florida Archaeology is available for download below.

02/05/2019

From our collection: kaolin to***co pipe, from London, England. It was found in

01/24/2019

From our collections: carved bone pin from a prehistoric site in

01/15/2019

Excavations and monitoring in West Palm Beach uncovered the remains of the floor of one structure, likely one of the boat repairs houses, based on its location and associated rails for hauling boats in and out of Lake Worth. The site was denominated the Mangonia Boatyard. The boatyard structures are depicted in the 1920 Sanborn map. Approximately 12 by 4 meters of the floor as characterized by a wooden structure consisting of wide planks supported by beams, was uncovered 1.70 meters below the fill. Associated artifacts included iron fasteners, a boiler, and glass bottles. In addition, a crankshaft was found in the fill, and likely fit for a steam engine found in 1972.

12/27/2018

AHC project in West Palm Beach was included in the Best Photography of December in the The Palm Beach Post

Archaeologist Mark Jacobs, right, uses a metal detector as archaeologist Kia Taylor-Riccio uses a shovel to excavate an old board structure on a city-owned lot at 3336 North Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach on Thursday, December 6, 2018. It is unclear what the buried structure is, although Archaeologist Odlanyer Hernández de Lara says it’s not a boat. [JAMES WOOLDRIDGE/palmbeachpost.com]

11/12/2018

AHC archaeologists, Bob Carr, Ryan Franklin and Odlanyer Hernández de Lara will be presenting "New Discoveries of the Everglades Landscape: Lost Creeks and Prehistoric Sites" in the Symposium Finding Middle Ground: Emerging Ideas About Interior Wetlands Florida, organized by Jennifer Green and Catherine Smith at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Augusta, Georgia

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