Looking Beyond the Mission: Investigating the Nineteenth Century Occupations at the San Luis De Talimali Mission Site (8LE4)

Summary

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

I looked to synthesize, and expand on, past historical and archaeological research pertaining to the nineteenth century at the San Luis site in Tallahassee, Florida. My intention was to further investigate the different ownerships of San Luis during this century. A further goal was to highlight the need to better understand the enslaved experience at San Luis during the ten year period that Dr. Arthur M. Randolph operated his 816 acre plantation. Combined with the documentary research, I turned to two sub-surface surveys to investigate the nineteenth century material culture at San Luis: a 1984 auger survey conducted by Gary Shapiro, and a 2018 posthole survey conducted by Tanya Peres. Observing the artifact patterning of these two surveys, distribution maps were created to attempt to determine the location of the plantation main house, the slave dwellings, nineteenth century roadways, and any other nineteenth century structures.

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• 2020 SHA General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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