Aztec or Native? The Mystery of the Red Pottery at the Alleged 1559 Luna Colony Site
The East Pensacola Heights site (8Es1) on Pensacola Bay was reported as a Native village with two burial mounds by the Smithsonian Institution in 1882 and revisited in1947. The University of West Florida (UWF) stated that the 1559 Spanish Colony led by Tristan de Luna was located at the same site. UWF began excavations there in 2015.