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A short (~5 minute) video introducing the 450+-year history of the most beautiful bayou, Bayou Chico, in Pensacola, Florida.
View a documentary video produced by Michael O’Donovan concerning the Spanish Expeditions of Hernando de Soto and Tristan de Luna into the interior of S.W. Alabama and N.W. Florida during the 1500s.
Contact Archeology Inc.,
P.O. Box 30576
Pensacola, Fl. 32503
This 1984 PBS documentary, produced by the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio, explores the possible 1540 route of DeSoto through Alabama. Archaeologist Caleb Curren travels proposed sites, interviewing archaeologists David DeJarnette, Keith Little, Mack Brooms, Read Stowe, and others.
There are two important historic archeological mysteries associated with the lower Alabama River. The first is the location of one of the largest battles ever fought between Europeans and Natives in North America at the Native town of Mabila (1540). The second is the first European settlement in the interior of North America named the Settlement of the Sacred Cross (1559). This book provides the reader with the latest archeological field research concerning the search for the two sites.
By Jeffrey P. Brain. In my 1985 review of the state of knowledge concerning the route of the Hernando De Soto entrada through the southeastern United States in 1539-1543, I reached a discouraging conclusion: “……
One of the most long-lived archeological mysteries in all of the Americas has yet to be resolved. Researchers have been trying to solve the mystery of the location of the battle site of Mabila for…
by: Contact Archeology Inc. (CAI) February 2024 Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola Bay Research Area Introduction Contact Archeology Inc. (CAI) presents this article regarding our research on Bayou Chico as an introduction to our historical and archeological…
Perhaps the world renowned scientist Carl Sagan said it best concerning the scientific method: “Remarkable Claims Require Remarkable Proof.” The University of West Florida (UWF) made a “Remarkable Claim” in December of 2015 when they…
