Many colleagues and interested friends frequently ask me what I’m working on. It’s difficult to share all the research in a brief conversation plus the final reports are voluminous. I came up with a practical solution; put together an informal collection of projects using abstracts and photos to just “cut to the chase.” I call them “Notes from the Field.” I email them in a non-random fashion. I choose the individual “Notes” for colleagues who might be interested in the content. The response has been gratifying. The “Notes” are gratis. Pass them on if you wish. If you reference them just give the title, the author, the date, with the source as “Notes from the Field.”
– Caleb Curren, Archeologist
The famous battle site of 1540 between the armies of Hernando de Soto and Native Mabilians was fought in present-day southern Alabama. The archeological site…
The Mystery of the Tabby Structure on Mobile Bay by: Caleb Curren and David Dodson (Contact Archeology Inc.) Article References and Related Works Download PDF…
The Native Tome: Another Clue to the Location of The Luna Settlement of the Holy Cross (1560) and the Soto Battle Site of Mabila (1540)…
A Queen’s Pearl from the Lower Alabama River? by Caleb Curren October 2018 (an update from a 2016 Archeology Ink. Journal article: Archeologyink.com) Article References and…
Mabila: The Largest Battle Ever Fought Between Europeans and Natives on American Soil by Caleb Curren Contact Archeology Inc. March 2018 Article Download PDF Version…
The Battle of Chicaza: The Winter Death Camp of the Soto Army by Caleb Curren Contact Archeology Inc. Article References and Related Works Download PDF…
The Battle of Mabila: Recent Archeological Testing in the “Forks“ by Caleb Curren Contact Archeology Inc. November 2017 Article References and Related Works Download PDF…
The Pine Log Creek Site is unique and one of the most important Spanish Contact sites in the southeastern United States. The site was looted by…
An extraordinary artifact was found in a plowed field in a late Mississippian site (the King Site) in NW Georgia. It proved to be a Spanish…
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 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,…
During the latter half of the 20th century an important late Mississippian /Protohistoric site (circa mid-1500s through 1600s) was discovered in east-central Mississippi.