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AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY Vol. 16 No. 3 A team of Florida archaeologists working with Dr. Ashley White, a member of the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America, Dr. Michele White, a bioarchaeologist for the Florida Archaeological Survey, and Ethan White from Trinity History Honors, have confirmed the discovery of the lost city of the extinct Potano and the associated 1539 army encampment of Conquistador Hernando de Soto.
Artifacts from the 1539 Hernando De Soto Potano Encampment (2010)
Digital images of artifacts from the Hernando de Soto encampment with the Potano culture. Artifacts included are late fifteenth century Spanish coins, early sixteenth century seven layer faceted chevron beads, Nueva Cadiz tubular beads, iron crossbow bolts, harquebus lead shot, mail armor, European animal remains, and Alachua Culture lithics and potsherds. This is an active research project with sensitive data withheld to protect the archaeological resource. Some metadata is confidential...
De Soto Artifacts Surface After Hurricanes (2012)
AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. 12 Interview with Dr. Charles Hudson, an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia and co-author of Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida, about the persuasive archaeological evidence from the artifacts identified at the site excavated by Dr. Ashley White, a member of the Governing Board from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Hernando De Soto Archaeology and Artifacts (2010)
2010 Peer Reviewed Summary of field notes, excavations and artifact analysis from the ongoing research at the 1539 Hernando de Soto Potano Encampment and the associated Spanish Franciscan missions of Apula and San Buenaventura de Potano. This previously unknown First Spanish Cultural Period site is located on the wetlands associated with Orange Lake. The artifact analysis section alone encompasses some two hundred pages of detailed supporting evidence as well hundreds of digital images. This...
Investigating one of the earliest expeditions to America (2013)
MEDIEVAL WARFARE Vol III, Issue 4 A team of international historians and archaeologists are currently investigating one of the earliest known New World expedition sites in the United States. Project leader Dr. Ashley White discusses excavations that have unearthed both medieval iron crossbow bolts and rare .61 calibre lead shot from the harquebus, with images of the artifacts.
Making the Case for the Parkin Site as Casqui: Hernando de Soto's 1541 Cross (2017)
Most archeologists agree that the Parkin site (3CS29) is the village of Casqui described in the chronicles of the Hernando de Soto expedition. When the Spaniards visited in 1541, one of the things they did was raise a cross atop the platform mound where the chief’s house stood. In 1966, archeologists found what they suggested was the base of this cross in a looter’s pit. Additional research in the early 1990s revealed that the post was made of bald cypress that was radiocarbon dated between 1515...
New World Treasures – Artifacts from Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s 1539 Expedition (2013)
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....
Sixteenth Century European Artifacts from the Confirmed 8MR03538 De Soto Encampment Site with X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis (2017)
The 8MR03538 White Ranch / De Soto site is one of the most thoroughly vetted and scientifically dated archaeological sites in recent history. It has been confirmed as a contact site of the 1539 entrada by conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army. This site identified to have multiple occupations was the location of one of Hernando de Soto’s early camps in the sixteenth century and was in later use during the seventeenth century Spanish mission and ranching period. This important First...