Presidios of Spanish West Florida (1698-1763)

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper summarizes recently synthesized information generated from over three decades of research on the early 18th century presidios in Spanish West Florida. The Spanish returned to West Florida in 1698 and built four sequential locations of a presidio, three in Pensacola and one in St. Joseph, FL. The presidio relocations were caused by capture, treaty agreements, and hurricanes that resulted in four geographically separate and chronologically sequential archaeological sites and sets of documents. The archaeological assemblages have revealed several temporal trends in Euro-American and Native American ceramics, Spanish architecture, fortifications, and the composition of both Spanish and refugee Indian communities. These and other patterns will be discussed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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