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Conference paper
Archaeological and documentary insights into the native world of the Luna expedition
75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (November 16, 2018, 11/2018)
11/16/2018
Abstract
Excavations at the terrestrial settlement of Tristán de Luna y Arellano on Pensacola Bay suggest that the material culture of the colonists at the site between 1559 and 1561 included a significant amount of contemporaneous Native American ceramics evidently scavenged along with food from evacuated communities along the coast and interior. Combined with newly-discovered documentation detailing the establishment and use of a road between Pensacola and the temporary Spanish settlement at Nanipacana in central Alabama, and deteriorating Native-Spanish relations during this period, these new data offer important insights into the indigenous social geography of this region at a pivotal time.
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- Title
- Archaeological and documentary insights into the native world of the Luna expedition
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Conference
- 75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (November 16, 2018, 11/2018)
- Format
- pdf
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries to digitize and/or display this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380090763006600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Anthropology
- Language
- English