Recent archaeological finds in the United States
Some Guadalupan discoveries in excavations carried out from 1880 by the archaeologists David J. Hally, Gordon Willey James V. Langf, John Belmont and others in the United States, in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, by the Anthropological Society of Washington and by the Society for American Archaeology, have made a new contribution to what we know of the history of Guadalupe and its influence from the first years of the second half of the 16th century. Certain objects came to light in these excavations that refer to Our Lady of Guadalupe and to Juan Diego. The hypothesis of these archaeologists about the provenance of these objects is the following: already at the beginning of the second half of the 16th century the Spanish organized expeditions to conquer the eastern coast of America to set up Catholic missions. One of them was established precisely between 1559 and 1561, on the site of these archaeological finds (cf. in "Columbian Consequences", vol. 2, Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Border Lands East, Washington and London (1990), and in "The Recovery of Meaning", Historical Archeology in the Eastern United States, edited by Marc P. Leone and Parker V. Potter, Jr., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, s.d. John S. Belmont, with a letter about the discoveries from Kanab, Utah, dated 25 May 2000, to Fr J. Escalada).Mo< Source
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