Luna Settlement (Other Keyword)

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An Analysis of 16th Century Spanish Shipboard Provisioning Using Material Culture from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate M Ganas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of the ongoing research on the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna expedition, this paper discusses food provisioning aboard the ships that arrived in Pensacola, Florida, in August 1559. The expedition, financed and outfitted in New Spain, intended to establish a Spanish foothold in North America. However, soon after arriving, a...

Let’s Talk Form: Using Vessel Form Analysis to Identify Food Provisioning Patterns on Spanish Ships in the 16th Century (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate M Ganas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a discipline, maritime archaeology has prioritized the study of ship construction methods/design over the wealth of material culture associated with shipwrecks. However, shipwreck assemblages offer a unique opportunity to understand shipboard culture. The Emanuel Point II (EPII) shipwreck of the failed 1559–1561 Luna expedition...