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DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma K. Graumlich. Sienna Williams.

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 July of 1559, the Spanish crown funded an ill-fated expedition which attempted to seize a colonial foothold in what would one day be Spanish Florida. Spain’s efforts were thwarted by a hurricane in September of that year which wrecked seven of the expedition’s vessels in modern-day Pensacola Bay, Florida. Survey operations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in Spanish North America. In 1693 the Spanish governor of Florida guaranteed the legal freedom of self-emancipated Africans and African Americans if they converted to Catholicism, built and occupied a fort on the frontier of St. Augustine, and fought against Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1540 and 1568, three Spanish military expeditions penetrated the interior region of the southeastern United States, interacting on two or more occasions with several Native chiefdoms extending between Alabama and the Carolinas. The army of Hernando de Soto crossed this entire area in 1540, followed by revisits to the western...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

The recent discovery and archaeological investigation of the 1559-1561 settlement of Tristán de Luna on Pensacola Bay, in concert with ongoing nearby excavations at the second and third Emanuel Point shipwrecks from Luna’s colonial fleet, has prompted new opportunities for research into the material culture of Spain’s mid-sixteenth-century New World empire.  In an effort to develop systemic linkages between the material traces left behind in different archaeological contexts, both terrestrial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

In 1559, the Viceroy of New Spain launched a massive royally-financed expedition from Veracruz, with the goal of establishing a colonial foothold in Southeastern North America after decades of failure. Led by don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, fleet of 12 ships carrying some 550 soldiers and nearly 1,000 additional settlers successfully established a Gulf coast settlement on Pensacola Bay. Though abandoned after only two years because of the devastation of their fleet and food stores by a hurricane...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillyan M Corrales.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The multi-component site known as 8SJ40 is perhaps most widely recognized as the site of the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in the United States, called Fort Mose. However, long before the establishment of the Fort Mose community, this land was utilized by indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Compton. Carol E. Colaninno.

Elizabeth Reitz has had a distinguished career partially built on her efforts to document exchanges in foodways as groups came together to form multiethnic communities. Her research investigating animal remains recovered from multiethnic communities in colonial Spanish Florida exemplify this work. She has shown that as Native Americans and Spaniards interacted, they blended their established food traditions. Part of this blending was the introduction of novel subsistence strategies (in both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in what later became the United States. Consequently, it was an experiment in freedom shaped by Spanish colonialism and African responses to it. Inhabitants of Fort Mose, including men, women, and children, lived their lives on a frontier and faced multiple challenges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Four years of archaeological investigations have now been conducted by the University of West Florida at the site of the port settlement established by Tristán de Luna y Arellano on Pensacola Bay in 1559, and devastated by the loss of...