List of works
Poster
Radiocarbon Dating of Carbonized Wood from the Tristán de Luna Settlement
Date presented 04/20/2023
Student Scholar Symposium & Faculty Research Showcase, 04/20/2023, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Our poster presentation includes background information regarding the history and context around Tristán De Luna’s Spanish settlement attempt in Florida back in the mid-16th century and follows with the notable discovery of carbonized wood and an iron spike within a posthole believed to be contemporary to the activity of the settlement. We discuss why we decided to use C-14 (Carbon-14) radiocarbon dating of the carbonized wood in an attempt to provide evidence to support our hypothesis that the spike was from the settlement and date the spike by association. Charts and graphics showing context from the UWF Archaeology Field School are present throughout the poster. Theories are addressed to respond to the data from the C-14 testing and concluding statements are discussed, lastly on our project followed by the possible leads or avenues of investigations we may postulate from in the future of our research.
Poster
The Discovery and Exploration of Tristan de Luna y Arellano's 1559-1561 Settlement on Pensacola Bay
Date presented 04/20/2023
Student Scholar Symposium & Faculty Research Showcase, 04/20/2023, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Our poster presentation includes background information regarding the history and context around Tristán De Luna’s Spanish settlement attempt in Florida back in the mid-16th century and follows with the notable discovery of carbonized wood and an iron spike within a posthole believed to be contemporary to the activity of the settlement. We discuss why we decided to use C-14 (Carbon-14) radiocarbon dating of the carbonized wood in an attempt to provide evidence to support our hypothesis that the spike was from the settlement and date the spike by association. Charts and graphics showing context from the UWF Archaeology Field School are present throughout the poster. Theories are addressed to respond to the data from the C-14 testing and concluding statements are discussed, lastly on our project followed by the possible leads or avenues of investigations we may postulate from in the future of our research.
Poster
Applying the ideas of the Carolina Artifact Pattern to Spanish Refugee Missions of the 18th century
Date presented 2021
Student Scholar Symposium & Faculty Research Showcase, 2021, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
This project presents a model similar to that of the Carolina Artifact Pattern, but is built upon the artifact patterns for the 18th Century Spanish Mission settlements with a population of Native Americans in Spanish Florida. Mission San Joseph de Escambe and Nuestra Señora del Rosario de la Punta were selected for the presence of both Spanish and Native populations as well as being contemporaneous. Once the artifacts of both sites were correctly categorized, archaeologists may use the model to gain some insight and expectations of sites similar to these and produce similar interpretations if using the same model. It is the hope that this model will support not only future interpretations of 18th Spanish Mission settlements with Natives but also encourage further studies in this area.