“Trinkets“ of the Spanish Luna Colony on Pensacola Bay (Trade Items that Became Artifacts) by David Dodson and Caleb Curren Contact Archeology Ink Article References and Related Documents Download PDF Version The earliest Spanish expeditions that came to the mainland of the current Southeastern United States knew what the Natives wanted … “trinkets,” as the Spanish…
One of the main criteria for locating the settlement site of the Luna colony today would be discerning the availability of an ample fresh water source in 1559 along the shores of Pensacola Bay. While the documentation found in The Luna Papers…
Is the UWF Luna Colony site location claim legiti- mate … or not? This article examines this issue.
Can we apply repetitious cartographic patterns of a substantial number of the earliest European settlements in the current United States to the possible location of the 1559 Spanish Colony on Pensacola Bay in northwest Florida?
A 16th-Century shipwreck was discovered in Pensacola Bay in the autumn of 1992 by archeologists from the Florida Bureau of Archeological Research.
The archeological site of the Luna colony on Pensacola Bay has not been found. We are conducting an archeological survey to locate remains of that settlement.
1Ce308 is a very important Native / Spanish contact site in Cherokee County in northeast Alabama. Although the site is multicomponent, the European contact portion of the site is the most intriguing. The site, located in a plowed field, was dug by collectors. Caleb Curren, Keith Little, and George Lankford contacted the collectors and made photographs of a…
1Ba1 is one of the most important sites on the northern Gulf Coast relative to early Spanish contacts with Native populations during the 1500s. It is a burial mound containing Native and Spanish artifacts. It was first discovered by the intrepid C.B. Moore in 1901 who excavated numerous pottery vessels and Spanish artifacts from the site. Gordon…
The following pages contain photographs of a sample of 16th Century Spanish artifacts from Alabama and NW Florida.It is a collection of objects from museums, private collections, and personal excavations.
The recent discovery of a Spanish map dating to the 1500’s may shed light on one of the longest-lived mysteries in the archeology of the Southeast. The map has led to the development of a testable hypothesis concerning a possible campsite on Mobile Bay of the 1559 Tristan de Luna expedition to the northern Gulf Coast.