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New World Discovery Archaeology Colloquium (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Fred White

Leading anthropologists discuss the Hernando De Soto expedition and America’s first Spanish missions. In 2012 Dr. Ashley White arranged a colloquium panel of academic scholars to be interviewed and filmed on location in Florida, Georgia, New York and New Jersey by the Halifax Media Group about the recent discoveries at the MR03538 archaeological site in Florida. The following discussions have been adjusted for length and hypertext links are provided for the entire archived conversations and...


New World Treasures – Artifacts from Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s 1539 Expedition (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Fred White

The Appleton Museum of Art New World Treasures Exhibition Artifacts from Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s 1539 Expedition and the Lost Mission of San Buenaventura De Potano A team of international historians and archaeologists have been thoroughly investigating this De Soto site and the lost Franciscan Mission of San Buenaventura since its discovery in 2005. The archaeologists credited with the discovery and honored by the United States Congress are University of Florida professors, Dr....


The northwestern Florida coast revisited (1918)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield) Moore.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


An overview of peat in Florida and related issues (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulette. Bond. Kenneth M. (Kenneth Mark) Campbell. Thomas M. Scott.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Phase I Archaeological Investigation of 2,707.47 Acres on Avon Park Air Force Range, Polk and Highlands Counties, Florida (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer Elam. Brandi Carrier Jones. Amy Burkholder.

This report presents the results of Phase I archaeological investigations of 2707.47 acres on Avon Park Air Force Range (APAFR) in Polk and Highland counties, Florida. The purpose of this study is to provide the APAFR with data for use in the management of its cultural resources in partial fulfillment of its obligations under the National Historic Preservation Act and other applicable cultural resources legislation. The Phase I survey resulted in the discovery of ten newly identified...


Reconstructing History Embedded in Tampa’s Urban Core: Photogrammetry of the 1800s Estuary Cemetery from Fort Brooke, FL (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis L Corwin. Eric Prendergast.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Destruction is inherent in archaeology, but in the ever-changing urban landscape this destruction can erase a site’s place and memory within the landscape, often by compliance archaeologists making way for new development. In recent years archaeologists have utilized photogrammetry to document at risk sites and...


Reconstructing the Bow of the Emanuel Point Ship (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Cozzi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The reconstruction of the bow of the Emanuel Point Ship (EP1) is undertaken in an attempt to establish the vessel's length of keel. This is a crucial step in determining the vessel's size, which may help to identify which of the vessel's lost during Tristan de Luna's 1559 expedition is represented by the remains of Emanuel Point 1.


Revisiting the Little Talbot Island Shipwreck (8DU3157), a Nineteenth-Century Beached Shipwreck in Duval County, Northeast Florida (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chuck Meide.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Little Talbot Island Shipwreck, located on the beach in Little Talbot Island State Park, was initially investigated and reported by state archaeologists in 1987. When initially encountered, the site consisted of a section of hull from a composite ship measuring 16.13 m (52.92 ft.) by 5.25 m (17.22 ft.). Since that time, the...


The shallow aquifer of southwest Florida (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Howard Klein. Geological Survey (U.S.). Florida Bureau of Geology.. Collier County (Fla.).

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Sites of Memory: Historic African American Cemeteries in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany L. Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study centers on four historical African American cemeteries in Jacksonville, Florida: Memorial, Sunset Memorial, Pinehurst, and Mount Olive. Collectively, these cemeteries contain thousands of African American burials. Contrary to the local government’s critique of these cemeteries as ‘abandoned and neglected’ spaces; interviews with...


Student Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools with Federal Agencies (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Joplin Davis. Alex Valladares.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Field schools are as diverse as the students enrolling in them. This paper examines the perspective of students and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) participating in the joint University of Central Florida – US Forest Service field school in the Ocala National Forest (ONF). Field schools remain the primary way to apply...


The Swiss Army Knife of the 17th and 18th Century: An Analysis of how Balandras were used in Historic Spanish Salvage Efforts (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber Cabading.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spanish Plate Fleets departing Havana, Cuba faced many hazards while on their voyage back to Spain. The greatest danger, however, were unexpected tropical storms and hurricanes, which could wreck entire convoys. As a result of such storms, Spain suffered three massive fleet destructions. Since the loss of even one galleon could impact the Spanish economy, Spanish-American authorities...


The Tucker site on Alligator Harbor, Franklin County, Florida (1963)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. (William Hulse) Sears.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Updates on the Ongoing Emanuel Point Shipwreck Investigations (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory D. Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will focus on the ongoing investigations of the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks, the oldest European wrecks in Florida, and our surveys and diver investigations for the 2022 UWF field season.


US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - Summary Report (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lara S. Anderson. Kristen L. Langness. Jennifer L. Riordan. Kenneth L. Shingleton, Jr.. Barbara C. Smoyer. Cathy A. Van Arsdale. Janet L. Wilzbach.

In 1997, the National Guard Bureau (NGB) tasked the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis, with assisting the Army National Guard (ARNG) in complying with the cultural resource requirements outlined in Army Regulation 200-4 and Department of Defense Instruction 4715.3. The St. Louis District was asked to develop a national project minimally to address three objectives of the NGB cultural resources program: (1) national Planning Level Surveys (PLS) for all ARNG federally owned or supported...


US DoD Desk Guide to Military Installations and Federally Recognized Tribes Locations Located in South and Eastern US (Legacy 06-315)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This 2007 Desk Guide is a starting point for identifying the proper tribe(s) to contact. Initiating formal, government-to-government consultation would typically follow. The Desk Guide contains basic information on both the military installations and the tribes located in the South and Eastern Regions so that this same information is readily available for the tribal governments and their staff. Tribal staff may need to contact a military installation in a region or state which is part of their...


US DoD Desk Guide to Military Installations and Federally Recognized Tribes Locations Located in South and Eastern US - Guide (Legacy 06-315) (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This 2007 Desk Guide is a starting point for identifying the proper tribe(s) to contact. Initiating formal, government-to-government consultation would typically follow. The Desk Guide contains basic information on both the military installations and the tribes located in the South and Eastern Regions so that this same information is readily available for the tribal governments and their staff. Tribal staff may need to contact a military installation in a region or state which is part of their...


Wet Site Archaeology (1988)
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Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida, December 12-14, 1986. This conference was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida. Wet Site Archaeology identifies the characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites, from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida and from the Late Pleistoscene to the twentieth century. The rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated...


Why it was here: Using an American War Fort to Teach Indigenous History and Perspective (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dave Scheidecker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. January 10th of 2024 will mark the 200th anniversary of Fort Brooke, a U.S. Military base that became the foundation for the city of Tampa, Florida. For the Native people of Florida and their descendants this anniversary is not one to celebrate. To properly understand the history of Fort Brooke requires talking about the Seminole...