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DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J. Van Slyke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Primary source documents suggest that a hurricane wrecked seven to nine Spanish vessels of the Tierra Firme Fleet in the lower Florida Keys on 5 September 1622. Over the past 400 years, only treasure hunters have located three of the doomed fleet. Documents point to another three vessels wrecking in modern Dry Tortugas National...