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The 1559-1561 expedition of Tristán de Luna was the largest and most well-financed Spanish attempt to colonize southeastern North America up to that time. Had it succeeded, New Spain would have expanded to include a settled terrestrial route from the northern Gulf of Mexico to the lower Atlantic coast. While a hurricane left most of the fleet and the colony’s food stores on the bottom of Pensacola Bay just five weeks after arrival, the colonists nonetheless struggled to survive over the next...
Manasota Key Cemetery: New Burial Pattern Interpretations from the Florida Gulf Coast (2016)
The Manasota Culture prospered from around 500 B.C. to A.D. 800 along the Florida coastline that stretches from Tampa Bay to the northern end of Charlotte Harbor. The Manasota Key Cemetery in Englewood, Florida, is one of the largest known Manasota burial sites with one hundred and twenty-two documented burials. Wilbur "Sonny" Cockrell excavated the site along with a team of Florida archaeologists and local volunteers from 1988 to 1989. Very few publications discuss the Manasota Key Cemetery. Of...
New Approach to the Shields Mound: Recent Testing of the North Side Ramp (2016)
Shields Mound is one of two large burial mounds that compose the Mill Cove Complex, an early Mississippian period site located near the mouth of the St. Johns River in Northeast Florida. First excavated by C. B. Moore in the 1890s, the sand mound held hundreds of burials as well as exotic goods such as copper, galena, mica and two ground stone spatulate celts. More recently, the University of North Florida has investigated nearby components of the complex, including several habitation middens...
The Old Vero Man Site (8IR009): Current Investigations indicate a Late Pleistocene Human Occupation (2016)
Recent work near Sellards's 1916 excavation demonstrates that the 8IR009 stratigraphy is more complex, and better preserved, than previously described. The modern excavations in 2014 and 2015 have recovered thermally altered bone and sediments along with charcoal from anthropogenic surfaces that range 14,000–11,100 cal yr BP in age. To date, 50 m2 have been excavated to mid-Holocene-age horizons, and Pleistocene-age thermally modified materials have been recovered in a ca. 28 m2 area adjacent to...
An Overview of the Historic Utilization of Caves in Florida (2013)
For thousands of years people have utilized cave environments in the southeastern United States. Caves were used for shelter, burials, and religious ceremonies, and were mined for natural resources by both prehistoric and historic people. Historically, caves in Florida were used for shelter, trash deposition, as quarries, and played a developmental role in Florida’s early tourism. Many of these caves still affect the lives of people in Florida through tourism, recreation, and scientific...
Parallels in History: Shipwreck Salvage and Exploitation of Archaeological Resources in Florida and Aruba (2018)
Beginning in the 1950s, Florida witnessed a fascinating and tumultuous series of events concerning the salvage of historic shipwrecks. Before the Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987, many historic shipwrecks in Florida were actively salvaged with little regard for their archaeological value. Currently, Aruba is experiencing similar salvage activity coupled with a lack of comprehensive legislation that protects terrestrial and submerged archaeological sites. This paper draws parallels between...
Perishable Artifacts from the Old Vero Site (8IR009), Indian River County, Florida (2017)
Perishable Artifacts from the Old Vero Site (8IR009), Indian River County, Florida J. M. Adovasio Florida Atlantic University Despite depositional conditions inimical to the preservation of plant fiber or wood-derived artifacts, several such objects have been recovered during the ongoing re-excavations of the Old Vero Site (8IR009) in Indian River County, Florida. These include a minute fragment of charred, three ply, braided cordage with a contiguous underlying date of ca. 9,000 calendar years...
Pew Pew! Small Arms from the Storm Wreck, a Loyalist Evacuation Ship from the End of the American Revolutionary War. (2016)
On or just after 31 December 1782, sixteen ships from a larger fleet evacuating Charleston, South Carolina wrecked while attempting to enter the St. Augustine Inlet. One of these sixteen ships, the Storm Wreck, has been the focus of six seasons of excavation for the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. The firearms recovered from the shipwreck include three Brown Bess muskets, two of which were loaded and in the...
A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida (2016)
Recent materiality scholarship seeks to understand the entangled world of belief and practice. The experience of the world is both cognitive and material and scholars are beginning to embrace the idea that there is no separation between the two. Understanding the intertwined nature of the cognitive and material world is at the center for evaluating the nature of groups that embrace a relational view of the world. In this paper, we consider the essential role that material culture plays in the...
Re-Placing the Plantation Landscape at Yulee’s Margarita Plantation, Homosassa, Florida (2017)
Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park (CI124B) contains the remnants of a nineteenth-century sugar mill, associated with Margarita plantation located in Homosassa, Florida. At present, documentation of the plantation boundaries is limited and locations of various associated buildings, including slave quarters, are unknown. To address this issue, a reconnaissance survey is underway in the vicinity of the mill to identify associated plantation structures and boundaries. Preliminary results...
Reptiles Rule: Patterns of Prehistoric Consumption in the Interior of Southern Florida (2016)
This poster discusses patterns of prehistoric consumption in light of results from recent archaeological investigations at black earth middens in the interior of southern Florida. The amount of faunal remains recovered from these sites may represent the largest single zooarchaeological project ever conducted for this region. More than 350,000 animal bones were identified from six sites, whose occupation dates ranged from the Archaic to Historic periods. Identified fauna revealed the overwhelming...
Revising Sixteenth-Century Olive Jar Chronology: The View from Two Early Contact Sites in Florida (2023)
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 chronology and morphology of Spanish olive jar has been divided into early, middle, and late styles since John Goggin's typology was first proposed in 1960, and this has formed a basis for dating sites with a colonial Spanish component for many decades. However, recent research and discoveries have suggested that changes and...
Revisiting HMS Looe: Recent Investigation of a British Warship in the Florida Keys (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2023, NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and East Carolina University initiated a reinvestigation of the HMS Looe shipwreck in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This 1744 shipwreck was the focus of early underwater archaeological research amidst treasure hunting activities in the early 1950s, when Mendel...
Shell Mound Architecture and Cooperative Mass Oyster Collection on the Central Gulf Coast of Florida, USA (2017)
Coastal fisher-gather-hunters often have a deep connection among their ritual practices, economic systems, and the built environment. Emerging trends and traditions of cooperation within forager communities can have lasting impacts on group social organization and can be instrumental in the development of early villages. The Crystal River region of the Gulf Coast of Florida, U.S.A provides an interesting locale to explore the intersection between shell mound architecture and cooperative mass...
Spanish West Florida: The Second Time Around (2025)
The first Spanish attempt to settle on Pensacola Bay was by Tristan de Luna in 1559-1561, but it was unsuccessful. The Spanish then focused their attention and resources on the Atlantic seaboard until the French intrusion down Mississippi and started settlements on the Gulf coast. Alarmed about the danger to their silver mines and loss of deep-water Pensacola Bay, the Spanish knew a new presidio was needed to protect that bay, but it was just too far (400 miles) from St. Augustine to be...
Spring Surprise: The Lessons Learned and Unexpected Results of the Chassahowitzka Headsprings Archaeological Assessment and Monitoring Project (2015)
In 2013 SEARCH conducted underwater archaeological investigations and monitoring at the Chassahowitzka Headsprings restoration project in Citrus County, Florida. Although the initial underwater survey yielded a sparse artifact count, hundreds of artifacts were recovered during the monitoring of commercial diver's as they removed substantial amounts of algae, detritus, and cultural materials from the springhead with 6-inch induction dredges. Diagnostic and rare artifacts include a Suwannee...
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Wood Analysis from the Spring Break Wreck (2019)
This is an abstract from the "A Sudden Wreck: Interdisciplinary Research on the Spring Break Shipwreck, St Johns County, Florida" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper discusses results of wood analysis performed on samples taken from the Spring Break Wreck, a site comprised of articulated 19th century vessel remains located on Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Analysis included taxonomic assignments of individual hull components, along with...
Staging Consumption: The Archaeology of Florida Tourism (2016)
This presentation will provide a review of current archaeological studies of historic resort and hotel sites in Florida. I will discuss insights yielded from these studies that informs on commodities acquisitions, consumption, and social status through the framework of anthropological and sociological perspectives of leisure and tourism. The major research goal of this project is to ascertain the cultural, sociological, and economic forces that have shaped Florida tourism through time by...
Student Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools with Federal Agencies (2023)
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...
Taking it Personally: Personal Items from the Storm Wreck (2016)
The Storm Wreck, a Loyalist refugee vessel fleeing Charleston near the end of the American Revolution in 1782, was discovered by LAMP in 2009. Since 2010, a systematic excavation of the shipwreck has been ongoing, aiming at documenting, recovering, and conserving diagnostic artifacts to further understand this shipwreck and its role in Florida’s Loyalist influx, a time of civil conflict and rapidly increasing population. This paper will review artifacts from the shipwreck categorized as personal...
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: a methodology for documenting existing and extrapolating past setting on archaeological sites (2016)
The Jupiter Inlet I (8PB34) site is one of the most investigated prehistoric sites in Palm Beach County, Florida. Like many of the ancient shell works sites across the state it was partially destroyed for road fill during the first half of the 20th century. Only a sketch map of the site from 1883 depicts what the site looked like prior to destruction. Since then there have been attempts to reconstruct the mound form but these relied on verbal accounts and limited stick and scope survey...
The Town of Jay, Florida: A Crossroads in History (2013)
The Town of Jay, located in Northwest Florida, is seemingly typical of a small agricultural community in this region; however this community’s connections to various individuals and entities, including the Panton, Leslie and Co.Trading Company, provide a unique glimpse into early settlement patterns in North Florida. A team of archaeologists and historians worked together to record all historic properties. Local informants with long-standing connections to the community, including individuals of...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Coral Reef Small Islands: A History of Human Adaptation in the Florida Keys (2016)
The Florida Keys have been largely overlooked in models of social interactions within both Florida and the greater Caribbean. Environmentally and culturally distinctive, the more than 1700 islands that make up this coral reef archipelago are consistently viewed from the mainland in models of human-environmental dynamics over time. This paper synthesizes available archeological data on the prehistoric human occupation of the Florida Keys with attention to the island landscapes of these sites that...
Tribal Community Engagement and Archaeology: The Story of the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office (2016)
Like other THPOs across the country, the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office (STOF THPO) is charged with serving the STOF communities and preserving their cultural heritage. With a staff of 17 individuals, the STOF THPO is heavily involved with both on and off reservation compliance projects ranging from home sites, pasture improvement projects, and wetland mitigations. However, as this paper and the symposium will demonstrate, these projects only make up a percentage...
Uncovering Marginalized Communities in South Lumber Mill Towns (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. There is a dearth of substantive research concerning segregation in lumber mill towns in Florida, particularly related to Black communities. This results in a significant gap in the understanding of these sites just as they are being encountered more frequently in CRM. Using the lenses of materiality and Critical Race Theory we...