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Conference presentation
Artifacts from Luna's Settlement and Shipwrecks
50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology
Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 2017)
2017
Abstract
Paper presented in the symposium "The Tristan de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida"
Thousands of artifacts have been recovered from the two shipwrecks associated with Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 1559 settlement attempt and recently hundreds of artifacts have now been recovered from the associated land site. Even at this early stage in the terrestrial work, we have the unique opportunity to make many interesting comparisons between the two assemblages regarding the relative proportions of different functional categories and the presence/absence of fasteners, armor, and weapons. Hypotheses concerning the fleet’s offloading and salvage are also being developed. Together, both sets of data represent a more complete picture of the material culture and activities at the earliest multiyear colony in North America.
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- Title
- Artifacts from Luna's Settlement and Shipwrecks
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
- Conference
- Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 2017)
- Series
- 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology
- Identifiers
- 99381832339406600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Archaeology Institute; Anthropology
- Language
- English