Alamo (Other Keyword)
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The Mission San Antonio de Valero (known as The Alamo) was established in 1718, by Father Antonio Olivares. The mission was believed to be located in its first location for about 12 months before it was moved to a second location. The third and final location is where it is located today in Alamo Plaza. The first site location has been lost for almost 300 years. In February, 2013, Kay Hindes, City Archaeologist for the City of San Antonio located a number of artifacts that are colonial in age in...
The Alamo Underground: Recent Excavations at Mission San Antonio de Valero (2018)
Recent excavations at the Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) revealed that in the midst of the highly developed urban landscape of San Antonio, pockets of archaeological deposits remain nestled between utilities, streets, and beautification improvements. Excavations at the west and south wall complexes revealed evidence of architectural features and three centuries of refuse left behind by San Antonio's residents as they reinvented the physical landscape. The diversity of material culture...
Archaeological Excavations at the Alamo Acequia, Southwest Hemisfair Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (1990)
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Collective Memory, Economic Growth, and Reverence: Recent Investigations at the Alamo (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The story of the Battle of the Alamo is known to many. However, what may not be known is that the site of the Alamo was, and continues to be, an economic hub for the city of San Antonio. Recent investigations by Alamo archaeologists have shed more light on the bustling commercial history of the site. Spanish Colonial artifacts were...
Description of the Stratigraphy, Features and Artifacts From an Archeological Excavation at the Alamo (1967)
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History and Archaeology of Mission San Antonio De Valero (the Alamo) (1981)
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Post-conservation Carbonate Blooms on a Bronze Gun from the Alamo (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2008, a Spanish-made 4pdr bronze cannon thought to have been used to defend the Alamo in 1836 was donated to the Alamo Museum, which sent it to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University for conservation prior to display. After 12 years, it began to exhibit new corrosion, and was sent back to...
Set in Stone: A Look at What Archaeology and Archival Research Tells Us About the Construction of the Stone Church and Convento at Mission San Antonio de Valero (41BX6). (2020)
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. As archaeologists prepared for current excavations associated with the Church and Convento at Mission San Antonio de Valero (41BX6) in San Antonio, Texas, previous archaeological and archival research was revisited to piece together...