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Conference paper
The discovery and exploration of Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 settlement on Pensacola Bay
69th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society (Jacksonville, Florida, 05/2017)
05/06/2017
Abstract
Following the fortuitous 2015 discovery of a substantial assemblage of mid-16th-century Spanish ceramics in a residential neighborhood overlooking the Emanuel Point shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay, the University of West Florida Archaeology Institute worked with more than 120 landowners to conduct extensive archaeological testing across a broad area in order to bound and explore the site. This paper compares documentary and archaeological evidence to confirm the identification of the roughly 10-hectare site as Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 settlement, making it the largest mid-16th-century Spanish colonial site in the Southeast, and the earliest multi-year European settlement in the entire United States.
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- Title
- The discovery and exploration of Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 settlement on Pensacola Bay
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Conference
- 69th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society (Jacksonville, Florida, 05/2017)
- Format
- pdf
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information 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
- 99380090872506600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Archaeology Institute; Anthropology
- Language
- English