A Bibliography of the Tristán de Luna Expedition, 1559-1561

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See also: Luna Fleet / Luna Settlement / Luna Documents

The bibliography below is a work in progress, and focuses on published (including reports and theses) sources relating to the Luna expedition, including larger secondary works that have specified sections dedicated to the expedition. The list of conference papers is likely incomplete, but represents the bulk of the papers presented. A number of papers specifically related to the Luna Settlement discovery are also listed separately and linked digitally here).

Primary Sources / Secondary Sources / Theses / Presented Papers


Published Primary Source Documents

Dávila Padilla, Augustín
1596 Historia de la Fundación y Discurso de la Provincia de Santiago de México de la Orden de Predicadores, por las vidas de sus varones insignes y casos Notables de Nueva España (pp. 189-229 for the Luna section; see also later editions from 1625 and 1634 on my Settlement page in the Luna accounts section)

Dávila Padilla, Agustín
1955 Historia de la Fundación y Discurso de la Provincia de Santiago de México de la Orden de Predicadores (facsimile of 1596 edition). Editorial Academia Literaria, Mexico City.

Priestley, Herbert L.
1928a  The Luna Papers: Documents Relating to the Expedition of Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano for the Conquest of La Florida in 1559-1561, Vol. 1. DeLand: Florida State Historical Society.

1928b  The Luna Papers: Documents Relating to the Expedition of Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano for the Conquest of La Florida in 1559-1561, Vol. 2. DeLand: Florida State Historical Society.

2010 The Luna Papers, 1559-1561: Volumes 1 & 2 (reprint of 1928 edition with new preface). University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

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Secondary Published Sources

Arnade, Charles W.
1959 Tristan de Luna and Ochuse (Pensacola Bay) 1559. The Florida Historical Quarterly 37(3-4): 201-222.

Bendig, Charles D.
2019 Amidships Assembly of the Sixteenth-Century Emanuel Point II Shipwreck. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23(2):513-541.

Bratten, John R.
Mesoamerican Component of the Emanuel Point Ships: Obsidian, Ceramics, and Projectile Points. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 109-114.

Bratten, John R., Gregory D. Cook, and John E. Worth
2008 The Emanuel Point Ship II: Investigation of a Newly-Discovered Sixteenth-Century Spanish Vessel in Pensacola, Florida. In ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings, 2008, ed. by Susan Langley and Victor Mastone, pp. 45-51. Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.

Cook, Gregory D.
2009 Luna’s Ships: Current Excavation on Emanuel Point II and Preliminary Comparisons with the First Emanuel Point Shipwreck. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 93-100.

Cook, Gregory D., John Bratten, John E. Worth, Kendra Kennedy, Dean Nones, and Scott Sorset
2009 Emanuel Point II Underwater Archaeology, Grant No. SC716. Report of Investigations #164, Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Cook, Gregory D., John Bratten, and John E. Worth
2016 Exploring Luna’s 1559 Fleet: Final Report for Florida Division of Historic Resources Special Category Grant SC 503. Report of Investigations #202, Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Galloway, Patricia
1995 Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (see pp. 143-160).

Hoffman, Paul E.
1980 A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990) (see pp. 144-181).

Hudson, Charles
1988 A Spanish-Coosa Alliance in Sixteenth-Century North Georgia. The Georgia Historical Quarterly 72(4): 599-626.

Hudson, Charles, Marvin T. Smith, Chester B. DePratter, and Emilia Kelley
1989a The Tristán de Luna Expedition, 1559-1561Southeastern Archaeology 8(1):31-45.

1989b The Tristán de Luna Expedition, 1559-1561. In Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath (editors), First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989), 119-134

Lowery, Woodbury
1901 The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States, 1513-1561. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (see pp. 411-427).

Priestley, Herbert L.
1936 Tristán de Luna: Conquistador of the Old South: A Study of Spanish Imperial Strategy. The Arthur H. Clark Co., Glendale, Ca.

Reese Lawrence, Colleen, and Jacob D. Shidner
2009 Recovery Techniques and Preliminary Analysis of Plant and Animal Remains. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 101-108.

Smith, Roger, James Spirek, John Bratten, and Della Scott-Ireton
1995 The Emanuel Point Ship Archaeological Investigation 1992-1995. Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee, Florida.

Smith, Roger C., John R. Bratten, J. Cozzi, and Keith Plaskett
1998 The Emanuel Point Ship: Archaeological Investigations, 1997-1998. Report of Investigations, No. 68, Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Sorset, Scott
2009 Preliminary Ceramic Analysis of the Emanuel Point II Ship. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 115-122.

Weddle, Robert S.
1985 Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500-1685. Texas A&M University Press, College Station (see pp. 226, 425-426).

Worth, John E.
2009 Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 83-92.

2018 Florida’s Forgotten Colony: Historical Background. In Florida’s Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point Shipwreck, ed. by Roger C. Smith, pp. 34-67. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Worth, John E., and John R. Bratten
2020 The Materials of Colonization: Archaeological and Documentary Traces of Tristán de Luna's Colonial Fleet. In Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America, ed. by Clay Mathers, pp. 126-145. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

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University of West Florida Theses

Atkinson, Stephen B.
2017 Narrowed and Filled with Timber: An Analytical Study of the Aft Components of the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Bendig, Charles D.
2016 Studying the Hearts of Ships: 16th Century Mainmast Steps and Bilge Pump Assemblies through an Annales Nautical Archaeological Perspective. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Bleuel, Casey
2021 Ropa, Herramientas, y Armas: Comparison of the Material Assemblages of 16th-Century Spanish Probate Records to the Artifact Assemblages at the Luna Settlement Site and the Emanuel Point I Shipwreck. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Bolte, Christina
2023 "There They Went to Die, and Some Returned:" Mexica-Tenochca Indigenous Allies, Neutron Activation Analysis, and the 1559-1561 Luna Settlement Colonization Effort in Pensacola, Florida. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Boren, Courtney
2021 An Examination of Pensacola Archaeological Culture and the Use of BOSL for Interpreting Pensacola Ceramic Chronologies in the Pensacola Bay Region of Northwest Florida. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Collis, James D.
2014 Empire’s Reach: A Structural and Historical Analysis of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Elmore, John Robert III
2021 I Can Barrel-Ly Contain Myself: Identifying Types of Wooden Casks Within the Emanuel Point II Artifact Assemblage. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Ganas, Kate
2023 Let's Talk Form: Using Vessel Form Analysis to Identify Galley Provisioning Patterns on Spanish Ships in the 16th Century. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Gifford-Smith, Erica K.
2014 Organic and Inorganic Chemical Characteristics of Artifacts from the Emmanuel Point Shipwrecks. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Gifford, Matthew J.
2014 Everything is Ballast: An Examination of Ballast Related Practices and Ballast Stones from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Harrold, Mercedes E.
2016 Cannon to Crossbows: An Archaeological Glimpse at Sixteenth-Century Spanish Naval Weapons. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Lawrence, Colleen L.
2010 An Analysis of Plant Remains from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Linden, Sarah E.
2013 Materials of Conquest: A Study Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in the Metallurgical Analysis of Two Sixteenth-Century Spanish Expeditions. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Marr, Andrew W.
2012 A Comprehensive Investigation of Lead Sheathing from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay, Florida. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Mateja, Cyndal A.
2019 Patterns and Practice: Lead Glazed Coarse Earthenwares of the Luna Settlement and Fleet. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

McMillon, Emily
2023 Of Rodents, Roots, and Men: Evaluating the Effects of Pedoturbation on Artifacts at the Tristán de Luna Settlement Site. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Oeters, Rikki
2023 Sands of Time: Bathymetric History of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck Area. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Peacock, Caroline
2023 From Olive This: A Characterization of the Spanish Olive Jar in Mid-16th Century New Spain. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Rodgers, Ree R.
2003 Stale Bread and Moldy Cheese: A Historical and Archaeological Study of Sixteenth-Century Foodways at Sea Using Evidence Collected from the Emanuel Point Shipwreck. Master’s Thesis, Department of History, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Scott-Ireton, Della A.
1998 An Analysis of Spanish Colonization Fleets in the Age of Exploration Based on the Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Shidner, Jacob D.
2011 A Macro- and Microscopic Zooarchaeological Examination of Living Conditions Aboard the Emanuel Point Wrecks. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Sorset, Scott R.
2013 A Comparison of Ceramics from the Padre Island and Emanuel Point Shipwrecks. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Stone, Abigail
2023 Finding Women in Their Lost Possessions: Personal Artifacts from the Luna Settlement. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Wells, Debra J.
1996 Spain and the Caribbean Basin: A Study of Ceramic Artifact Patterning in Contact and Settlement Sites. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Presented Papers

Bense, Judith A.
2017    Background for Luna: Archaeology at The University of West Florida. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Benchley, Elizabeth D., and John E. Worth,
2017    Discovery and Investigation of the Luna Settlement. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Benchley, Elizabeth, Warren Carruth, Danielle Mount, and Jennifer Melcher
2021    The Maritime Landscape of Emanuel Point. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Bleuel, Casey E.
2020    Calzones, Medias, and Camisas: Comparison Of The Material Assemblages Of 16th Century Spanish Probate Records To The Artifact Assemblage At The Luna Settlement Site. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Bleuel, Casey, and Janet R. Lloyd
2019    Ropa, Herramientas, y Armas: Comparison of the Material Assemblages of 16th Century Spanish Probate Records to the Artifact Assemblage at the Luna Settlement Site. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Bolte, Christina L.
2017    “From the North a Fierce Tempest”: Disaster, Relief, and the Failure of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement. Paper presented at the 2017 North American Society for Oceanic History Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. Clark G. Reynolds Student Paper Award Recipient.

Bolte, Christina L.
2018    The 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement: Disaster, Relief, and a “New Spanish” Artifact Assemblage in Pensacola, Florida. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Florida Anthropological Society Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Bolte, Christina L.
2018    Legacies of Coronado in Florida: the Failure of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement in Pensacola. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Bolte, Christina L.
2019    Disaster, Relief, and the Failure of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement in Pensacola, Florida: Archaeological Interpretations. Paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology, Swannanoa, North Carolina.

Bolte, Christina L.
2019    “From the North a Fierce Tempest”: Archaeology of Disaster and the Failure of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement in Pensacola, Florida. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Bolte, Christina
2021    Transplantation of a New Spanish Colonial Culture and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Expedition. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Bolte, Christina L.
2022    A Glimpse of Mid-16th Century New Spain in Pensacola, Florida: The 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Expedition. Paper presented at the 2022 North American Society for Oceanic History Conference, Wilmington, North Carolina.

Bolte, Christina L.
2023    “Scandals and Bad Examples:” Coronado’s Legacy and the Failure of the Luna Settlement. Paper presented at the 2023 North American Society for Oceanic History Conference, San Diego, California.

Bolte, Christina L.
2023    “Returned to Their Land:” Indigenous Allies, Spanish Imperial Expansion, and the 1559-1561 Luna Settlement. Paper presented at the 2023 American Society for Ethnohistory Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida.

Bolte, Christina L., and Whitney A. Goodwin
2023    Indigenous Allies, Neutron Activation Analysis, and the New Spanish Material Culture of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement in Pensacola, Florida. Paper presented at the symposium “Current Research at the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement and Fleet on Pensacola Bay,” organized by John E. Worth, at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN, October 25-28, 2023.

Bolte, Christina L., and John E. Worth
2019    A “Snapshot” of the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Colonial Culture of New Spain: the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay.  Paper  presented in the symposium “The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance” organized by Matthew Schmader at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2019.

Bolte, Christina L., and John E. Worth
2017    A Sixteenth Century Spanish-Mexican Artifact Assemblage in the Southeast: The 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement, Pensacola, Florida.  Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 8-11, 2017.

Bolte, Christina L., Whitney A. Goodwin, and Jeffrey R. Ferguson.
2023    Colonizers and Colonized: Indigenous Allies and the New Spanish Colonial Culture of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay, Florida. Paper presented in the symposium “Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires,” organized by Andrea P. White and Katherine M. Sims, at the Society for Historical Archaeology 56th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Lisbon, Portugal.

Boren, Courtney
2021    Maritime Connections through the Native American Landscape at the Bay of Ochuse. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Bratten, John R.
2019    Analysis of the Material Culture Recovered from the Luna Shipwrecks. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Bratten, John
2021    Elemental Mercury Recovered from the 1559 Luna Shipwrecks: Usage and Origin. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Bratten, John R., and Janet R. Lloyd
2017    Artifacts from Luna’s Settlement and Shipwrecks. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Bruno, Kelsey
2019    Identification of Iron Cultural Remains at the Luna Settlement Site. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Bruno, Kelsey L.
2020    Identification of Material Culture Remains from the Luna Settlement Site. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Cook, Gregory
2019    Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks: Ongoing Investigations of Vessels from Luna’s 1559 Fleet. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Cook, Gregory
2020    Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks: Ongoing Investigations of Vessels from Luna’s 1559 Fleet. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Cook, Greg
2021    Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks: The Submerged Remnants of a Spanish Colonial Maritime Landscape. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Cook, Gregory D., and Meghan M. Mumford
2017    Investigations on a Vessel from Luna’s 1559 Fleet and Survey for Additional Ships. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Cook, Gregory, Sienna Williams, William Wilson, Timothy Sutherland
2023    Research Updates on the 1559 Luna Fleet. Paper presented at the symposium “Current Research at the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement and Fleet on Pensacola Bay,” organized by John E. Worth, at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN, October 25-28, 2023.

DeSanto, Emily L., and Caroline A. Peacock
2020    Picking Up Olive The Pieces: An Analysis On 16th Century Olive Jar From The Tristán De Luna Site. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Elmore, Robbie
2019    The Largest Piece of the Puzzle: The Analysis and Identification of Artifact 5479, A Barrel Stave Excavated from the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Elmore, John R.
2020    An Analysis of Barrel Components Excavated from the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Ganas, Kate M.
2021    New Insights on the identity of the Vessels of the Luna Expedition. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Ganas, Kate M.
2023    A Form-based Methodological Template: Using the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck as a Case Study for Conducting Ceramic Vessel Form Analysis. Paper presented at the symposium “Current Research at the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement and Fleet on Pensacola Bay,” organized by John E. Worth, at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN, October 25-28, 2023.

Gazaway, James
2021    Maritime and Terrestrial Military Artifacts from the Luna Settlement and Fleet of 1559: Armor from the Emanuel Point I Shipwreck. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Gougeon, Ramie, and Courtney Boren,
2017    “And the Land is Not Well Populated”: The End of Prehistory on Pensacola Bay. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Grinnan, Nicole, Della Scott-Ireton, and Mike Thomin
2017    Luna by Land and Sea: Public Outreach at America’s First European Settlement. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Herrmann, Brandon L.
2019    A Tale of Personal Discovery: A Comparative Analysis of the Emanuel Point, Padre Island, and Santa Clara Shipwrecks (1554-1564). Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Herrmann, Brandon L.
2020    A Tale of Personal Discovery: A Comparative Analysis of the Emanuel Point, Padre Island, and Santa Clara Shipwrecks (1554-1564). Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Hermann, Brandon
2021    A Tale of Personal Discovery: A Comparative Analysis of the Emanuel Point, Padre Island, and Santa Clara Shipwrecks (1554-1564). Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Johnson, Pax
2023    Recent developments in understanding meat consumption at the Luna Settlement Site. Paper presented at the symposium “Current Research at the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement and Fleet on Pensacola Bay,” organized by John E. Worth, at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN, October 25-28, 2023.

Jolly, Hillary
2021    Prehistoric Transitional Communities and the Reuse of Coastal Landscapes on Pensacola Bay. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Mateja, Cyndal
2019    Uncovering Lead Glazed Coarse Earthenware in the Historic Record. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Mateja, Cyndal
2021    Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians: Charting Patterns of Communal Cooking Across the Luna Settlement. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Miller Wolf, Katherine, Christina Bolte and John Worth
2021    A Hypothetical Bioarchaeological Reconstruction of the Fate of the 1559-1561 Luna Settlement People. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Minnocci, Micah B., and Hunter W Whitehead
2019    In Situ Digital Documentation of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, Missouri, Jan. 9-12, 2019.

Mumford, Megan and Janel Lloyd
2021    Comparison of Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks Material Culture. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Peacock, Caroline
2023    What does Olive it mean? A study of 16th century Spanish Olive Jar from the Tristán de Luna settlement. Paper presented at the symposium “Current Research at the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement and Fleet on Pensacola Bay,” organized by John E. Worth, at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN, October 25-28, 2023.

Sadler, Cassandra
2019    Palynological Analysis of Sixteenth-Century Spanish Olive Jar. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Sadler, Cassandra V.
2020    A Gene Cluster Walks into a Jar: Forensic Analysis 16th -Century Spanish Olive Jars. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Sadler, Cassandra
2021    Spain’s Golden Tupperware: A Historical Analysis of Iberian Pez Production and Atlantic Trade in the Sixteenth Century. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Worth, Henry
2022    Analyzing the Luna Assemblage of 16th-Century Majolica Ceramics. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-9, 2022.

Worth, John E.
2016    Interpreting Spanish Artifact Assemblages in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Southeast: The View from the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement on Pensacola Bay.  Paper presented in the symposium “Documenting Early European/Native American Contacts and their Repercussions in the Southeast: A Symposium honoring Marvin T. Smith” at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Athens, GA, October 27, 2016.

Worth, John E.
2017    The Luna Expedition: An Overview from the Documents. Paper presented in the symposium “The Tristán de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.

Worth, John E.
2018    Linking Archaeological and Documentary Evidence for Material Culture in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida: The View from the Luna Settlement and Fleet.  Paper presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 3-6, 2018.

Worth, John E.
2018    New Insights into Spanish-Native Relations during the Luna Expedition, 1559-1561.  Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, St. Petersburg, Florida, May 12, 2018.

Worth, John E.
2018    Archaeological and Documentary Insights into the Native World of the Luna Expedition.  Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Augusta, Ga., November 16, 2018.

Worth, John E.
2019    Functional and Spatial Patterning in Artifact Distribution at the Luna Settlement Site.  Paper presented at the 71st Annual Conference of the Florida Anthropological Society, Crystal River, Florida, May 11, 2019.

Worth, John E.
2019    Between Soto and Menéndez: Archaeology at the Luna Settlement on Pensacola Bay.  Paper presented at the 2019 Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology, Swannanoa, N.C., August 9-10, 2019.

Worth, John E.
2019    The Luna Settlement in Archaeological and Documentary Perspective. Paper presented in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.

Worth, John E.
2020    Recent Archaeological Investigations at the 1559-1561 Settlement of Tristán de Luna y Arellano on Pensacola Bay.  Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M. Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.

Worth, John E.
2021    Two Years at a Doomed Spanish Colonial Port: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Luna Settlement. Paper presented in the symposium “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Tristán de Luna Settlement and Shipwrecks,” organized by Christina Bolte and John Worth, at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida, July 8-10, 2021.

Worth, John E.
2023    Recent Excavations at the Tristán de Luna Settlement on Pensacola Bay. Paper presented at the symposium “Current Research at the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement and Fleet on Pensacola Bay,” organized by John E. Worth, at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN, October 25-28, 2023.

Worth, John E., Elizabeth D. Benchley, Janet R. Lloyd, and Jennifer Melcher
2017    The Discovery and Exploration of Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 Settlement on Pensacola Bay.  Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Jacksonville, Florida, May 6, 2017.

Worth, John E., Danielle Dadiego, and Christina Brown
2022 An Analysis of Trade Beads Excavated from the Tristán de Luna Settlement Site and Their Significance.  Paper presented at the 55th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-9, 2022.

Worth, John E., Caroline Peacock, and Willet A. Boyer, III
2023    Revising Sixteenth-Century Olive Jar Chronology: The View from Two Early Contact Sites in Florida. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Lisbon, Portugal, January 4-7, 2023.


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