Making the Pieces Fit - Historic Maps and the Colonial Archaeology of Downtown Pensacola, Florida

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 urban nature of Pensacola's colonial archaeology means we get tiny fragments of the archaeology a piece at a time. Beginning in the early 1990s Dr. Bense realized the importance of a single, unified archaeological grid across Pensacola and found the people and tools necessary to help implement it. Using this grid, more than three decades of archaeological work, from controlled excavations to construction monitoring and remote sensing, can be lined up with historic maps to give us a better understanding of the episodic excavations of a larger colonial landscape. This paper presents the origins of the Pensacola archaeological grid through its modern revisions and refinement that allow us to see how the pieces fit.

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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