USF Anthropology

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is asking the head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to evaluate new findings in the history of students…

2/21 1:30 p.m. 2nd paragraph corrected to indicate location of possible projectile found in one graveTwo more sets of remains were identified today from…

For years, claims of abuse, beatings, rapes and murder of students by staff have come from those who survived the Dozier School for Boys, the now-closed…

For years, claims of abuse, beatings, rapes and murder of students by staff have come from those who survived the Dozier School for Boys, the now-closed…

"They brought him here today to be with his brother."Those were the words of Richard Varnadoe, 86, who was at last able to put his brother Thomas in his…

On November 18, 1914, a fire in a dormitory at what was then the Florida Industrial School for Boys is believed to have killed eight students and two…

In 1934, 13-year-old Thomas Varnadoe and his brother, Hubert, were sent to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys for allegedly stealing a typewriter. In...

University of South Florida researchers will announce Thursday afternoon that they've determined the identities of two more sets of remains buried on the…

Ovell Krell was only 12 years old when her brother died -- but what she remembers most about him was his musical ability."He could walk into a music store…

If things had gone as planned, USF Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Heide Castañeda would have spent the last two months in Texas and Mexico…

In April 2013, the decomposed remains of a woman were discovered behind a truck stop at I-75 and State Road 44 in Sumter County. Authorities there weren’t…

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, is asking the governor of Pennsylvania to have state police there work with a team of Florida researchers investigating…