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.