North American, American Southeast (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin A. Beck. David G. Moore. Christopher B. Rodning. Rachel V. Briggs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From December 1566 to March 1568, Captain Juan Pardo established a network of six small garrisons extending beyond the Atlantic Coast through modern-day North and South Carolina and across the Appalachian Mountains into eastern Tennessee. The first of these, Fort San Juan, was intended to serve as the base of...