February Member Meeting
Tue, Feb 06
|Tiffany Room at Flagler College
Join us for Greg Hendryx's lecture, "Interpreting a Late 17th to Early 18th Century Native American Refugee Camp Near St. Augustine." SAAA lectures are free and open to the public!
Time & Location
Feb 06, 2024, 7:00 PM – Feb 07, 2024, 8:30 PM
Tiffany Room at Flagler College, 74 King St, St. Augustine, FL 32084, USA
About the event
Join us as we hear our guest speaker, Greg Hendryx, present his research, "Interpreting a Late 17th to Early 18th Century Native American Refugee Camp Near St. Augustine."
The Shannon Road Midden Site, located 10 miles north of the Castillo de San Marcos, produced archaeological evidence of a Mission Period component that stands in contrast to most others in the region. Specifically, it yielded ceramics indicative of non-local types, it is small-sized, and there are no archival or cartographic settlement data available that describe the site. Based on these criteria and other lines of evidence, this site is interpreted as a late 17th to early 18th century multi-ethnic Native American refugee camp that was only briefly settled near St. Augustine to be closer to Spanish allies and evade English raids.
Greg Hendryx is the Archaeology Sector Leader at SEARCH, Inc. For more than two decades, he has focused his research…