The Florida Archaeological Survey

1. A metadata survey we began in 2005 and published in 2010 reported the location of the San Buenaventura de Potano mission foundation at the 17^th century Potano village Richardson site.

http://core.tdar.org/document/391272/

2. In 2005 we discovered a 16^th century Potano village on the same wetlands associated with Orange Lake that is older than the Richardson site.

http://core.tdar.org/document/391004/

3. We excavated a primitive Franciscan mission / ranch structure within the 16^th century Potano village dating from the 1580s and unearthed the largest cache of medieval coins ever found in the Americas.

http://core.tdar.org/document/391004/

4. Along the same wetlands between the 16^th century Potano village and the 17^th century Richardson village, we discovered the location of a conquistador army encampment with European artifacts confirmed through X-Ray Florescence Analysis that are in the early 1500s date range of the Narváez and De Soto entradas.

http://core.tdar.org/document/391004/

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REFERENCE ARTICLE

Archaeologists Discover de Soto’s Artifacts and Lost Mission

AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY Vol. 16 No. 3

Paula Neely – Fall 2012

American Archaeology Editorial Advisory Board

Darlene Applegate, Western Kentucky University – Michael Barber, Virginia State Archaeologist

Cynthia Bettison, Western New Mexico University – Michael Collins, Texas State University

John Cottier, Auburn University – Douglas Craig, Northland Research

John Doershuk, Iowa State Archaeologist – Stacye Hathorn, Alabama State Archaeologist

Kathleen Hull, University of California-Merced – Don Linebaugh, University of Maryland

Maxine McBrinn, Metropolitan State College of Denver – Chip McGimsey, Louisiana State Archaeologist

Michael Michlovic, Minnesota State University-Moorhead – Julie Morrow, Arkansas Archaeological Survey

Leslie Mouriquand, Riverside County Archaeologist – Jennifer Pederson, Hopewell Culture National Historic Park

Martha Sempowski, Rochester Museum and Science Center – Russell Townsend, Cherokee THPO

Susan White, Oregon – Douglas Wilson, Ft. Vancouver NHS

ArchaeologiVol. 16 No. 3

ADDITIONAL FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY WEBSITES

Nombre de Dios (AD 1565 - present)

http://www.missionandshrine.org/excavations.htm

The Letchworth Mound Complex (ca AD 300 - 700)

http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/letchworth/

The Mission San Luis founded (AD 1633 - 1704)

http://www.missionsanluis.org/

US Navy and Confederate Shipwrecks

http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/legacy/index.cfm

Digital Artifact Collections

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/

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Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere on the 1564 expedition. That color engraving was later published byTheodor de Bry in 1591.

Click on the links below for extensive historical map archives.

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