First Spanish Florida, 16th-18th centuries (Temporal Keyword)
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Project metadata for resources within the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.
A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of Land Management Unit 89, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2010)
Land Management Unit 89 was subjected to a cultural resources assessment to identify the presence of archaeological sites or historic properties. Background research determined the area was highly disturbed and had little potential for intact cultural resources. The subject property was then subjected to a systematic archaeological survey which confirmed the findings of the background research.
From Producers to Consumers: Exploring the Role of Florida’s Eighteenth-Century Refugee Mission (2016)
Between the late sixteenth and mid seventeenth century, the multiethnic colony of Spanish Florida grew by assimilating indigenous chiefdoms into an expanding colonial system defined by missionization and fueled by the production of large quantities of surplus staple foods using Indian land and labor. Rampant demographic collapse augmented by slave raiding by English-backed native groups resulted in the collapse and retreat of Florida’s formerly far-flung mission system by the early eighteenth...