Posted on 02/17/2016 12:40:01 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
Amateur archaeologist Tom Garner had time to kill and took a drive along Pensacola Bay in the Florida Panhandle. Spying a newly cleared lot, he poked about, hoping to find artifacts from the city's rich history dating back centuries to the Spanish explorers.
Garner stumbled upon some shards of 16th Spanish pottery.
"There it was, artifacts from the 16th century lying on the ground," said Garner, a history buff whose discovery has made him a celebrity in archaeological circles.
Experts have confirmed the find as the site of the long-lost land settlement of a doomed 1559 Spanish expedition to the Gulf Coast led by Tristan de Luna. The discovery bolsters Pensacola's claim as the first European settlement in the modern-day United States, six years before the Spanish reached St. Augustine on Florida's Atlantic seaboard. The expedition was scuttled by a hurricane in September 1559, shortly after the fleet arrived in Pensacola. Five ships sank.
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Thanks for the link
Too early for Mormons?
Aren’t they desebdants of an Israeli tribe which came here way before then
Descendants
I don’t know. It wasn’t that big, maybe 3 inches long but it was definitely a horn off of some kind of animal. I could just kick myself now for not keeping it.
Not according to DNA evidence.
I’m sorry my sarcasm didn’t come across. Have a fun day.
:-)
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