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Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida

Name: Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida
Author: Tanya M. Peres
ISBN: 9781683402510

Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Rochelle A. Marrinan

Published by: University of Florida Press

Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, drawing on the past thirty years of work at sites from St. Augustine to the panhandle.

356 Pages6.00 × 9.0022 b/w illus., 23 tables, notes, bibliography, index

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Published: November 23, 2021

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This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, outposts established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to strengthen the colonizing empire and convert Indigenous groups to Christianity. In these chapters, archaeologists, historians, and ethnomusicologists draw on the past thirty years of work at sites from St. Augustine to the panhandle.

Contributors explore the lived experiences of the Indigenous people, Franciscan friars, and Spanish laypeople who lived in La Florida’s mission communities. In the process, they address missionization, ethnogenesis, settlement, foodways, conflict, and warfare. One study reconstructs the sonic history of Mission San Luis with soundscape compositions. The volume also sheds light on the destruction of the Apalachee-Spanish missions by the English.

The recent investigations highlighted here significantly change earlier understandings by emphasizing the kind and degree of social, economic, and ideological relationships that existed between Apalachee and Timucuan communities and the Spanish. Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida updates and rewrites the history of the Spanish mission effort in the region.

Tanya M. Peres, associate professor of anthropology at Florida State University, is coeditor of The Cumberland River Archaic of Middle Tennessee and the editor of Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology. Rochelle A. Marrinan, associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University, is coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

“This long-awaited volume is a compelling look at a period of history unknown to many. It is a must-have for anyone interested in the scholarship of the Spanish mission period in Florida.”—Charles R. Ewen, coeditor of Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy
“Spanning the time from the founding of the first missions to their final abandonment, these chapters offer important new insights into the changing social, economic, and ideological relationships between the missions’ Apalachee residents and Spanish religious, military, and administrative personnel.”—Richard Jeffries, author of Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley

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Foreword
Jerald T. Milanich

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida: An Introduction to the Volume
Rochelle A. Marrinan and Tanya M. Peres

Chapter 2. San Juan del Puerto: A Mocama Mission by the Sea
Keith Ashley and Rebecca Douberly-Gorman

Chapter 3. An Analysis of Artifacts and Archaeology at 8JE106, a Spanish Mission Site in Florida
Alissa Slade Lotane

Chapter 4. Mission San Damian de Escambe: New Interpretations of Earlier Excavations
Nicholas H. Yarbrough

Chapter 5. Exploring an Eighteenth-Century Refugee Mission in West Florida: Archaeological Investigations at Mission San Joseph de Escambe
John E. Worth

Chapter 6. Imported Ceramics and Colonowares as a Reflection of Hispanic Lifestyle at San Luis de Talimali
Jerry Lee

Chapter 7. Feeding Families and Friars in Apalachee Province during the Mission Period
Tanya M. Peres

Chapter 8. The Lives of Friars in Apalachee Province
Rochelle A. Marrinan

Chapter 9. Reconstructing the Sonic History of Mission San Luis de Talimali
Sarah Eyerly, Mark Sciuchetti, Rachel Bani, and Laura Zabanal

Chapter 10. “With the Many Enemies That It Has”: The Collapse of Apalachee Province
Jonathan Sheppard

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