De Soto Field School

Hernando de Soto Field School

and

Spanish Mission Excavation Seasons

2005-2015

Ethan White, Trinity Honors and mission period Spanish coin from MR03538

Ethan White and Dr. Michele White, Bioarchaeologist at Grid 2 MR03538

Elias Bouyounes, Trinity Honors, Dr. Michele White and David E. Reutter, M.A., Registrar and Art

Historian for the Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida at MR03538

David Johnson, Dr. Ashley White and David Reutter study sixteenth and seventeenth century majolica from MR03538

Spanish majolica

Dr. Ashley White, Ethan White (behind), Keegan Johnson, Trinity Honors, Elias Bouyounes, David Reutter, David Johnson, Dr. Michele White

Native Indian Ceramics

Dr. Richard Estabrook, Director, Central Region of the Florida Public Archaeology Network

2009 Ground Truth Studies

Cocina excavation at mission site MR03538

Dr. W. James Stemp, Professor of Anthropology,

Oxford and Keene State College, teaching lithic technology to 2010 field school participants

Majolica potsherd MR03538

Spanish maravedis coins discovered at the mission and ranchero site. These coins were minted in various places throughout Spain

during the realms of Felipe II (1566-1598), Felipe III (1598-1621) and Felipe IV (1621-1665)

View from the trench MR03538

Felipe III, 1598-1621, maravedi MR03538

Studying Spanish vara design of church structure MR03538

Native Indian ceramics

Excavation adjacent to church floor MR03538

Test excavation on east mission embankment MR03538

Hail Mary Rosary beads from Franciscan Crown type 1700s

Ruth Ann Grim, M.A., Chief Curator and Art Historian for the Appleton Museum of Art,

College of Central Florida, Robert Stenstream, Art Historian and Dr. White

Ground penetrating radar Grid 2 MR03538

1. Ferdinand and Isabella, 1497-1504; cuarto de 4 maravedi, Granada mint uncertain. 2. Ferdinand and Isabella, 1497-1504; cuarto de 4 maravedi; mint Cuenca.

3. Enrique IV, 1454-1474, blanca, 1471-74 mint uncertain, excavated at the 1539 Hernando de Soto site

Zeiss level, screen and elevation range rods

Mail armor De Soto encampment MR03538

Ground truth study tapes and stakes

From the grid MR03538

Field notes

Pig mandible (Sus scofa) western De Soto grid

Ground penetrating radar sled

Coin conservation at MR03538

Appleton Museum art historians and advisory council meeting

JST judgmental shovel test east mission area MR03538

Native Indian Lithics

Dr. Richard Estabrook, 2009 ground penetrating radar Grid 1 MR03538

Sources for the photography and composite maps:

F. Ashley White, MR03538 State of Florida Master Site File Digital Images.

F. Ashley White, Survey Sketch MR03538 White / De Soto Site.

F. Ashley White, Spanish Mission Church Floor Plan White / Potano Site.

F. Ashley White, archaeological artifact sketch of sus scofa domestic pig mandible and maxilla.

Michele C. White, color addition to etching by Theodore de Bry 1591 etching from paintings by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues from the French expeditions to Florida in 1562 and 1564. Michele C. White, archaeological artifact sketch of iron mail armor four in one pattern.

Alan Youngblood, Photo Editor, Star Banner / Halifax Media.

Doug Engle, Multi Media Editor, Star Banner / Halifax Media.

Rob Mack, Graphics, Star Banner / Halifax Media.

Lee Ferinden, Photographer Ocala Star-Banner.

John H. Hann, Bonnie G. McEwan and James J. Miller, and Robert Deaton, Apalachee Indian Life at Mission San Luis, Florida Department of State publication.

Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez, La Relacion, 1542.

Jerald T. Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians, University Press of Florida, 2006.

Richard Estabrook, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Ground Penetrating Radar Images, 2009.

Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson, Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida, Florida Museum of History, Ripley P. Bullen Series, 1993.

Charles Hudson, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun, The University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Luis Jerónimo de Oré, Relacion de los martires que a avido en las provincias de la Florida, Madrid, 1617.

Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe, University Press of Florida, 1995.