Ceramics Tell a Story at Mission San Luis

Pottery fragments are extremely common artifacts in most colonial contexts at Mission San Luis. This pottery, whether produced by Apalachee potters in traditional forms, as colonowares, or imported from Europeans, Asians, or other Native American groups, had an integral role in the economy of San Luis.

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This is part of our FREE lecture series featuring contributors to the book, “Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida,” published by University of Florida Press in 2021. The series discusses new research and interpretation of the early Florida mission system.

UPCOMING LECTURES:

— June 21, 2023″Archaeology of Florida Mission Site 8JE106″Alissa Slade Lotane, Director of the Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State

— August 16, 2023″New Interpretation of San Damian de Escambe”Nicholas H. Yarbrough, Archaeology Technician, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Florida Department of State

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Past lectures in this series:

— Introduction & Overview by Dr. Rochelle Marrinan (October 19,2022)

— Feeding Apalachee Province by Dr. Tanya Peres (December 14, 2022)

— The Soundscape of Mission San Luis by Dr. Sarah Eyerly (February 15, 2023)