Defining the 1722 Presidio de Bexar: A Closer Look at the 2018 Calder Alley Data Recover Investigations, Military Plaza, San Antonio Bexar County, Texas.

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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.

In summer 2018, Raba Kistner Environmental, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations along San Pedro Creek in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. The data recovery investigations focused on the eastern bank of the currently channelized San Pedro Creek within Calder Alley in downtown San Antonio. Calder Alley is located within the Main and Military Plaza National Register Historic District, behind the Spanish Governor’s Palace (41BX179) and the Plaza de Armas Building. Military Plaza is historically documented as the location of the 1722 Presidio de Bexar. Excavations within Calder Alley uncovered densely concentrated deposits dominated by faunal remains and Spanish Colonial ceramics. Preliminary analysis of the data suggested an association with the 1722 Presidio de Bexar. However, archival research and additional data recovery investigations conducted to the south of Calder Alley in the spring of 2019, may offer an alternative interpretation of the cultural deposits encountered within Calder Alley.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere.

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PaperId(s): 696