You CAN Make a Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: Persistence in Southeastern Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The archaeological study of historically documented and undocumented intercommunity interaction between eighteenth century Spanish, French, and Native American settlements in Spanish Pensacola and French Mobile was a key focus of investigations conducted by University of West Florida (UWF) archaeologists under the direction of Dr. Judy Bense. Her persistence over three decades and across three sequentially occupied Spanish presidios make this paper possible. Contributions made by Bense, her students, and colleagues at UWF and in Mobile, have led to a better understanding of borderland community interactions across political borders when local survival, security, practicality, and prosperity circumvent legal restrictions set by distant ruling crowns.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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