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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The search for the precise landing spot of Sir Francis Drake on the western coast of North America has lasted centuries. The discovery of sixteen-century Ming Dynasty porcelain and other European artifacts located at Point Reyes National Seashore has long been at the center of the...
Zelia Nuttall and The Vexed Question: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2015)
It’s been almost two score and four hundred years since Francis Drake and his company in two ships, the Golden Hinde and a small ship only known as Tello’s Bark, landed somewhere on the west coast of American. This interlude was during what became known as ‘The Famous Voyage’ (1577-1580). Seventy to eighty men-- and a pregnant black woman named Maria—disembarked, built a rough fort, and remained for five or six weeks. The geographical location of this landing has been the subject of much...