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Current findings of fact:
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
17th century Potano village Richardson site.
2. In 2005 we discovered a 16th century Potano village on the same wetlands associated with Orange Lake that is older than the Richardson site.
3. We excavated a primitive Franciscan mission / ranch structure within the 16th century Potano village dating from the 1580s and unearthed
the largest cache of medieval coins ever found in the Americas.
4. Along the same wetlands between the 16th century Potano village and the 17th 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.
It has now been 10 years since the four main discoveries associated with this project and there are more than a dozen peer reviewed scholarly
articles, book chapters and documentaries about the work at the site and this information is available online to all.
Digital archives of this research are housed at:
Arizona State University
Digital Antiquity Repository
The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)
http://core.tdar.org/browse/creators/146041
https://unc.academia.edu/DrFAshleyWhite
https://sites.google.com/site/archaeologicalsite/
htp://core.tdar.org/document/391661
Video Documentaries
http://archaeologychannel.org/news-from-tac/video-news-from-tac/1286-video-news-from-tac-may-2013
Field School Image Archive
http://core.tdar.org/document/391621
The New World Archaeology Colloquium
Leading anthropologists discuss the Hernando De Soto expedition and America’s first Spanish missions. A panel of top academic scholars were interviewed and filmed on location in Florida, Georgia, New York and New Jersey by the Halifax Media Group about the confirmed discoveries at the MR03538 archaeological site in Florida.
http://www.academia.edu/5430751/New_World_Discovery_Archaeology_Colloquium
http://core.tdar.org/document/391046
https://sites.google.com/site/archaeologicalsite/home/archives
Physical archives of this research are housed at:
The Florida Department of State - Division of Historical Resources
Bureau of Archaeological Research
R.A. Gray Building
500 S. Bronough Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250
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