Selected Archaeology Links
The links below focus on the historical archaeology of Spanish Florida, but also include more general links of regional or archaeological interest.
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Categories below: Spanish Florida / Material Culture Identification / Other Archaeology Links / Online Books / Zooarchaeology / Geology Links
Spanish Florida
Tristán de Luna Expedition
Luna Settlement (UWF website on the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna settlement discovered in 2015, with comprehensive resources including photos and links)
Luna Settlement Project (UWF blog following ongoing fieldwork and other investigations regarding the site)
The Emanuel Point Ship: Archaeological Investigations 1992-1995 (extensive website detailing excavations at the Emanuel Point I wreck during the 1990s, including a virtual tour of the wreck)
Emanuel Point I Shipwreck (UWF website with additional information regarding excavations at EPI)
Emanuel Point II Shipwreck (website detailing ongoing and recent excavations at the site of the second wreck discovered from Luna's fleet, maintained by UWF)
University of West Florida Maritime Field School Blogs: 2010 - 2009 - 2008 (project blogs focusing largely on the EPII wreck)
St. Augustine
Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History (website with extensive resources regarding archaeology at St. Augustine and its environs, including downloadable site reports on the Menéndez-era occupation at the Fountain of Youth site)
City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program(website focusing on cultural resource management archaeology in the city)
Castillo de San Marcos (NPS website, including a fantastic virtual tour hosted by USF)
Santa Elena
Santa Elena Foundation (website of the recently-established foundation supporting ongoing research at the site of Santa Elena on Parris Island, South Carolina)
Scholar Commons, Santa Elena (online USC repository of digital reports regarding Santa Elena)
Fort San Juan / Juan Pardo Expeditions
The Berry Site (website maintained at Warren Wilson College; includes extensive imagery and online publications)
Spanish Missions in Florida
Mission San Luis (website with extensive overviews of the history and archaeology of the mission; includes an excellent database of images of artifacts from the site)
Mission San Joseph de Escambe (my own website focusing on the UWF project at this 18th-century mission since 2009; see also our project blog)
The Buried History of Mission Communities in St. Augustine (a great map-based website focusing on the archaeology and history of eastern Florida missions)
Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal (website based on the template of the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, containing comparative data from three Florida mission sites excavated by the Florida Museum of Natural History: Fox Pond, Baptizing Spring, and Fig Springs)
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Southeastern Indians & Spanish Missions (website with online videos for all the presentations in the February 2017 public symposium held in Fort Myers, Florida)
Pensacola
Pensacola Colonial Historical Archaeology (UWF website with links to various pages detailing archaeological projects relating to the First Spanish Period, including Santa María de Galve (1698-1719), Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa (1722-1756), and the downtown Pensacola Commanding Officer's Compound).
Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Project (my own website describing the UWF project to locate First Spanish Period sites outside the Pensacola presidios; see also our project blog)
Underwater Archaeology in Florida and the U.S. Southeast
Maritime Research at the University of West Florida (website including links to pages about research on a variety of underwater projects in the Pensacola vicinity, most of which are First Spanish period)
Reports: Submerged Historical Resources of Pensacola Bay, Florida
Phase One (Franklin et al. 1992) / Phase Two (Spirek et al. 1993)
1733 Spanish Galleon Trail (website detailing the underwater wrecks of the 1733 Spanish plate fleet, all of which may be visited by the public)
Florida's "Museums in the Sea" (website with virtual tours of many of Florida's Underwater Archaeological Preserves, including several Spanish colonial sites)
Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (website with extensive information about underwater archaeology based in St. Augustine, although focusing primarily on periods after the Spanish colonial era)
Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (excellent comprehensive website covering shipwrecks across the globe; created and maintained at Texas A&M University)
The 1554 Spanish Plate Fleet (website maintained by the Texas Historical Commission, includes digital copies of important monographs on both the Nautical Archaeology of and Documentary Sources relating to the 1554 fleet)
Journey Without Return: An Inventory of Spanish Shipwrecks off the Coasts of the United States and Bahamas (website maintained by Spain's Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage within the Ministry of Culture and Sports; also in Spanish)
Public Archaeology in Florida
Florida Anthropological Society Education Committee (official website of the statewide archaeology organization's public education commttee)
Florida Anthropology (tumblr blog by the FAS education committee above)
Florida Public Archaeology Network (statewide network of regional public archaeology centers; coordinated at the University of West Florida)
Trail of Florida's Indian Heritage (statewide network of public archaeology and Native American outreach organizations and sites)
Florida Historical Contexts (overviews of Florida prehistoric archaeological contests originally written in 1990, but nonetheless still useful; hosted by the Florida Department of Historical Resources)
Next Exit History (mobile application with videos and other information regarding public sites relating to the history and archaeology of Florida; based at UWF in Pensacola)
Material Culture Identification
Material Culture Resources: Ceramics
Digital Type Collections-Historic Period Archaeological Ceramics (remarkably extensive and well-organized digital type collection with extensive imagery; maintained at the Florida Museum of Natural History)
Ceramic Technology Laboratory, Florida Museum of Natural History (great site including digital imagery of both prehistoric and historic/Spanish-era Native American ceramics found in Florida)
Spanish Colonial Artifact Gallery (well-organized and extensive set of images maintained at the Florida Museum of Natural History)
Georgia Indian Pottery Website (great resource, including Spanish-era ceramic types; maintained by the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia)
Guide to Native American Pottery of South Carolina (a similar site maintained by the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Jamestown Rediscovery - 17th Century Ceramics (database with information on 17th-century colonial ceramics from diverse origins; maintained by the Jamestown Ceramics Research Group)
Medieval Ceramics Online (index and online digitized issues of the UK journal Medieval Ceramics, which includes types up to the 17th century)
Online Reference Books (digitally borrowable)
Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology (2002 edition)
Tunica Treasure (1979)
Tunica Archaeology (1988)
Online Reference Books (free)
A History of Pottery & Porcelain, Mediæval & Modern (1868 edition)
Pottery and Porcelain: A Guide to Collectors (1879 edition; see also 1900 edition)
A Manual of Pottery and Porcelain for American Collectors (1872 edition)
Early American Pottery and China (1926 edition)
English Pottery and Porcelain: Being a Concise Account of the Development of the Potter's Art in England (1880 edition; see also 1899 edition)
English Pottery: Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1924 edition)
A Manual of Marks on Pottery and Porcelain: A Dictionary of Easy Reference (1876 edition; other editions available from 1894 and 1898)
Handbook of Marks on Pottery & Porcelain (1912 edition)
British Pottery Marks (1910 edition)
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain (1915 edition)
A Guide to the Pottery & Porcelain of the Far East in the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography (1924 edition; British Museum)
Material Culture Resources: Glass Beads
A Classification System for Glass Beads for the Use of Field Archaeologists, by Kenneth E. and Martha Ann Kidd (1970; online version hosted by Parks Canada; PDF downloadable version here).
A Classification System for Glass Beads for the Use of Field Archaeologists, by Kenneth E. Kidd and Martha Ann Kidd (2012; online version; PDF available here).
Guide to the Description and Classification of Glass Beads Found in the Americas, by Karlis Karklins (online version; PDF available here)
Material Culture Resources: Miscellaneous
Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website (extensive and authoritative website on U.S.-produced bottles, maintained by the Society for Historic Archaeology)
Nail Chronology as an Aid to Dating Old Buildings (PDF of a concise 1968 overview hosted by NPS)
The Coins of Colonial and Early America (extensive resource pages hosted at the University of Notre Dame)
Crotal Bells (very useful details about types and history of crotal bells; on the UK Detector Finds Database website)
Historic Artifact Identification Guidance (PDF file with several great "cheat-sheets" regarding common historic-era material culture; prepared and hosted by the California DOT)
Bullen Projectile Point Type Collection (generally prehistoric, but an excellent online library of images of stone projectile points from Florida; but see also a 2006 re-evaluation of Bullen's preceramic typology here).
Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part 1, Point Types (Project Gutenberg Ebook version of the 1964-1975 guide, with scanned original images; mostly prehistoric)
Online References (free)
Clay Smoking Pipes Recovered from the Sunken City of Port Royal: May 1, 1966-September 30, 1967 (typescript report)
Clay Smoking Pipes Recovered from the Sunken City of Port Royal: October 1, 1967-March 31, 1968 (typescript report)
Glass Bottles Recovered from the Sunken City of Port Royal: May 1, 1966 – March 31, 1968 (typescript report)
Silver and Pewter Items Recovered from the Sunken City of Port Royal: May 1, 1966 – March 31, 1968 (typescript report)
Other Archaeology Links
General Colonial Archaeology & Material Culture Resources
Spanish Colonial Artifacts (image gallery of Spanish colonial-era artifacts at the American Southwest Virtual Museum)
Spanish-Colonial Artifacts (image gallery of late 18th-century Spanish colonial artifacts relating to the 1795 Zúñiga expedition in an online exhibition by the Arizona State Museum)
Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland (great resource with text and imagery including Colonial Ceramics and Post-Colonial Ceramics)
Mount Vernon Midden - Object Database (searchable image database with extensive and diverse collection of 18th-century English colonial and early American material culture)
Material Culture of Plymouth Colony (selection of images and descriptions of 17th-century artifacts associated with the Plymouth colony)
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (remarkable searchable database of artifacts from colonial-era slave sites in the Atlantic seaboard and Caribbean)
The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center (nice site with lots of thematically-organized slideshows with imagery of objects and paintings of 18th century Anglo-American material culture)
Colonial Michilimackinac Archaeological Collection (selection of colonial-era artifact imagery dating from the 18th and 19th centuries)
Apalachicola River Valley Archaeology (nice overview of long-term archaeological research in northwest Florida, including historic and late prehistoric sections; hosted by the University of South Florida).
Sketchfab 3-D Artifact Galleries (3-D artifact imagery available online):
Florida Public Archaeology Network (Luna Settlement)
Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research
Research Labs of Archaeology - UNC Chapel Hill
University of South Florida Libraries
The Waring Lab - University of West Georgia
Warren Wilson College Archaeology Lab
Virtual Curation Lab - Virginia Commonwealth University
Miscellaneous Archaeology Resources
National Archaological Database (searchable database of the vast "gray literature" of archaeology reports; maintained by the U.S. National Park Service)
Selected Online Archaeology Books
The selection of books and monographs below is geographically focused on the region of greater Spanish Florida, but include archaeology from both the historic and prehistoric eras. The list is NOT comprehensive, but simply limited to those that are available online that I have found links to. Some of the sources below are available freely online, and others may be "borrowed" for one hour intervals.
Brown, Robin C.
1994 Florida's First People: 12,000 Years of Human History. Sarasota: Pineapple Press.Cushing, Frank Hamilton
1897 Preliminary Report on the Exploration of Ancient Pey-Dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Philadelphia: MacCalla & Company, Inc., Printers. [another reprint online here]Deagan, Kathleen
1983 Spanish St. Augustine: The Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community. New York: Academic Press.Ewen, Charles R., and John H. Hann
1998 Hernando de Soto among the Apalachee: The Archaeology of the First Winter Encampment. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.Milanich, Jerald T.
2017 Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.Milanich, Jerald T., and Charles H. Fairbanks
1980 Florida Archaeology. New York: Academic PressMoore, Clarence B.
1900 Certain Antiquities of the Florida West-Coast. Philadelphia: P.C. Stockhausen.Schnell, Frank T.
1981 Cemochechobee: Archaeology of a Mississippian Ceremonial Center on the Chattahoochee River. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida.Smith, Marvin T.
1992 Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation during the Early Historic Period. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.Willey, Gordon R.
1949 Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 113(1):1-599.Wyman, Jeffries
1875 Fresh-Water Shell Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida. Salem, Massachussetts: Peabody Academy of Science.
Zooarchaeology Links
Osteoarchaeology – Sketchfab
Sheep / Pig / Horse / Cow / Goat / Human / Whitetail Deer
OsteoID
Whitetail Deer: humerus / metacarpal / radio-ulna / femur / tibia / metatarsal / os coxae / scapula / sacrum
Geology Links
Geology Resources
Florida Geological Survey (publications)
Georgia Geologic Survey (publications)
Geological Survey of Alabama (publications)
Mississippi Office of Geology (publications)