Archaeological Investigations at Mission Concepción (41BX12) and the Historic St. John’s Seminary Campus, San Antonio, Texas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 1731, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña (Mission Concepción) was constructed along the San Antonio River as part of a larger mission system whereby Franciscan missionaries sought to expand Spanish Colonial influence in present-day Texas through processes of cultural assimilation. Many of Mission Concepción’s associated landscape features were lost following secularization and increased urbanization as the City of San Antonio expanded through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 2016 to 2019, Terracon Consultants, Inc., performed archaeological investigations adjacent to the mission in support of the St. John’s Seminary Redevelopment Project. Terracon identified intact cultural deposits associated with the mission, including portions of the northern compound wall and several midden deposits. Prior to Terracon’s investigations, only small portions of this wall had been relocated and exposed archeologically, and little was known about the potential for associated deposits. This poster presents preliminary analysis of archaeological materials recovered from contexts along and outside the north wall and discusses how these materials can be interpretively compared with extant archaeological collections from the other portions of the mission system.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39537.0