French Colonial Period (Culture Keyword)

DATASET Gregory Waselkov.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 1, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 2, Old Mobile (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov.

Field Specimen Catalog for Old Mobile Structure 3, (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov.

Field Specimen Catalog for Old Mobile Structure 4, (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 5, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums. Diane Silvia. Marvin Smith.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 14, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 30, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 31, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 32, Old Mobile (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums. Diane Silvia. George W. Shorter, Jr..

Field Specimen Catalog for the Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama.

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov.

Excavation photos from Structure 32 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia.

Glass beads recovered from Structure 01 at the Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia.

Glass beads recovered from Structure 02 at the Old Mobile Site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Glass beads recovered from the Augustin Rochon Plantation (1BA337).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia. Bonnie L. Gums. George W. Shorter, Jr..

Glass trade beads recovered from the Dog River Plantation (1MB161) site.

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia.

A collection of glass beads recovered from the Indian House site (1MB147) near the Old Mobile site (1MB94).

DATASET Gregory Waselkov. George W. Shorter, Jr.. Bonnie L. Gums.

Glass beads recovered from the Port Dauphin site (1MB221).

IMAGE Bonnie L. Gums. Gregory Waselkov.

A collection of photos from the La Pointe-Krebs House site from the 2010 excavations, plus one sherd with embedded glass beads.

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

The LaPointe-Krebs House or "Old Spanish Fort" (archaeological site 22JA526) in Pascagoula, Mississippi, is evidently the oldest standing structure in that state. Archaeological test excavations in and adjacent to the house in 1979, 1992, and 1994, 1995, and 2010 have revealed a complex sequence of colonial-period occupation and building on that site. Apart from some sporadic prehistoric occupation during the Middle Woodland period about two millennia ago, the major occupation occurred between...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bonnie L. Gums.

Southwestern Alabama's colonial history is represented by the sites of native settlements and colonial forts, villages, and river plantations that spanned the French (1699-1763), British (1763-1780) and Spanish (1780-1813) periods. In the eighteenth century, over 60 plantations were established along the major waterways around Mobile, but fewer than ten have been identified as archaeological sites, and excavation has occured at only four. Unfortunately, many of the historic sites around Mobile...

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

In 1994-1996 the University of South Alabama's Center for Archaeological Studies excavated the site of an Indian House (1MB147) near the Old Mobile Site (1MB94). The two sites were contemporaneous, with occupations between 1702 and 1711. Old Mobile was the French capital of the colony of Louisiane. Site 1MB147, known as the Indian House, was a domestic dwelling occupied by Native Americans, perhaps Mobilians, situated immediately across a swamp that delimited the western extent of Old Mobile....

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

After an intensive remote sensing effort in 2005 failed to identify remains of Fort Louis at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), a large pit feature associated with one of the fort's bastions was found in that search area by hand excavation. This feature and adjacent units were excavated in 2007-2010.

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

This section provides an overview of archaeological research on the site of Old Mobile (1MB94), French colonial capital of La Louisiane from 1702 to 1711. While the general location of Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, in modern-day southwestern Alabama, has always been known as the original French colonial townsite, archaeological research only began there in earnest in 1989 when James C. "Buddy" Parnell, an employee of Courtaulds Fibers Inc. recognized several well-preserved earthen...

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

Structure 1 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first noted for its raised earthen floor. Several similar features were visible in the forested, unplowed, western half of the townsite. Complete excavation in 1989 revealed the building to have been built using poteaux-sur-sole, or post on sill, construction. This building had a large central room with three joists supporting a wooden floor. On each end was a smaller room, one of which shared a double-hearth chimney with the central room. The long...

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

Structure 2 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first identified from systematic shovel testing that recovered blacksmithing slag from a concentrated area at the western edge of the townsite, adjacent to a swamp. Extensive excavations in 1990 uncovered a blacksmith's work area with forge and associated shelter, surrounded by a maze of fence footing trenches. Palisade-style fences are commonly associated with French colonial structures, but these fences were built and rebuilt frequently during the...