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Finding Women In Their Lost Possessions: Personal Artifacts At The Luna Settlement
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2023
Abstract
The Tristán de Luna expedition of 1559-1561 carried around 1,500 total people in hopes to settle La Florida. While historians and archaeologists have conducted extensive documentary and archaeological research on this expedition, no study has been performed to date on the material culture evidence of the women and children who accompanied this expedition. In this thesis, I explored the historical documents of the Luna expedition and of other 16th-century Spanish settlements to identify historical evidence of women and children. I then compared this historical record to the material culture recovered from the Luna settlement and associated shipwreck archaeological sites. Using a hermeneutic interpretive approach and Deagan’s (2002) functional categories, I analyzed personal artifacts from the 16th-century Spanish settlement to determine whether evidence for women and children can be recognized archaeologically. Personal artifacts examined from this site include clothing fasteners, religious items, jewelry, and other items that would have been used for personal adornment or individual use. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether evidence for women and children exists in the archaeological record of the Luna settlement and shipwrecks and to provide a foundation for understanding how personal artifacts can establish evidence for identity
Details
- Title
- Finding Women In Their Lost Possessions
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Contributors
- John E Worth (Committee Chair)Della Scott-Ireton (Committee Member)Erin Stone (Committee Member)
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 134
- Identifiers
- 99380461797306600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida