Timucua

by Jerald T. Milanich

Based on the latest research findings, this is the moving story of the demise of one of the oldest of the American Indian peoples.

Genres: History, Native American History, Archaeology, Anthropology

235 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 1996

About the author

Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is Curator Emeritus 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.

Milanich has won several awards for his books. Milanich won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council in 2005 and the Dorothy Dodd Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2013. He was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Milanich's research interests include Eastern United States archeology, pre-Columbian 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, also a professor at the University of Florida. They are the parents of historian Nara Milanich, who teaches at Columbia University.

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My mind is blown and my stomach hurts. Reading about the native groups from my neighborhood is the perfect way to spend Thanksgiving week. As a practicing Catholic, I’m horrified to learn the other side of the Florida missions. While evangelizing they were conforming, enslaving and spreading disease. I loved learning the same plants and animals I enjoy today sustained people in 750BC. I wish we could learn more about these people. Imagine a modern world where we could incorporate more of a native way of life spiritually and environmentally. This book should be mandatory reading for Florida history.