Conference presentation
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristan de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks
North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) (Pensacola, Florida, USA, 2020)
Abstract
The University of West Florida archaeology program identified the archaeological site of the Luna settlement – the first multi-year European settlement in the United States – in a developed neighborhood in Pensacola. The artifacts discovered are evidence of the Spanish settlement by Tristán de Luna y Arellano from 1559 to 1561, the earliest multi-year European colonial settlement ever archaeologically identified in the United States.
UWF archaeologists recovered numerous sherds of broken 16th century Spanish ceramics found undisturbed beneath the ground surface. The artifacts were linked to the Spanish expedition led by Luna, who brought 1,500 soldiers, colonists, slaves and Aztec Indians in 11 ships from Veracruz, Mexico, to Pensacola to begin the Spanish colonization of the northern Gulf Coast in 1559. The Luna settlement inhabited Pensacola from 1559 to 1561, which predates the Spanish settlement in St. Augustine, Florida, by six years, and the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, by 48 years.
Details
- Title
- The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristan de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
- Event
- North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) (Pensacola, Florida, USA, 2020)
- Identifiers
- 99380578758006600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Archaeology Institute
- Language
- English