Hurricanes and Spaniards: The Luna Settlement

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The September 1559 hurricane devastated the Tristán de Luna fledgling settlement and fleet of ships at anchor off modern-day Pensacola’s Emanuel Point and Scenic Highway area. Utilizing historical documents to guide research, the University of West Florida will perform a remote sensing survey southeast of the current Emanuel Point shipwrecks. The goal for this new survey will be to locate either the original 1559 anchorage for the fleet or one of the three remaining ships still lost. We will present the results of our magnetometer, side scan sonar and target diving of generated anomalies at this years conference.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow