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Distinguished Research Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, and adjunct Professor of Anthropology, History and Latin American
Studies at the University of Florida, USA.
Historical archaeology, contact period, Spanish colonial archaeology, caribbean, Southeast U.S. and Latin America.
Deagan has transformed traditional archaeology to modern archaeology by gathering multidisciplinary archaeological teams that include botanists, architects, historians, geologists, and zoologists. Doing this type of archaeology ensures the most accurate historical and archaeological information possible.
Some of Deagan's discoveries include the oldest symbol of Christianity in the Western Hemisphere, the earliest European settlement in the Americas, and the first free black settlement in North America. With more than twenty years experience she continues to work in the field making headline discoveries one after another. She has discovered Christopher Columbus' first settlement in America called La Navidad which is on the northern coast of Haiti and his only American residence, La Isabela in the Dominican Republic, and the first free black community in the United States called Fort Mose just north of St. Augustine, Florida. She has been conducting fieldwork in the Caribbean since 1979 and in St. Augustine, Florida since 1972. Deagan continues to work, following the cultural transformations in Latin America due to the multicultural society of Spaniards, American Indians, and Africans, which has shaped its history and present.
Her most recent of eight published books Ft. Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom was given the Florida Historical Society's Rembert Patrick Book Prize and the American Association for State and Local History Award for Merit.
1992 Society for Historical Archaeology Award of Merit
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