Finding Luna
UWF Division of Anthropology and Archaeology
Searching land and sea, archaeologists have recently discovered the first permanent European colony and several associated shipwrecks along Florida’s Gulf Coast.
A diver holds a stone cannonball recovered from the Emanuel Point II shipwreck.
By Tamara J. Stewart Spanish nobleman don Tristán de Luna y Arellano set out from San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, in 1559 to establish the first permanent European colony in what is now
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Pensacola, Florida. Having earlier traveled with the legendary Spanish explorer Coronado, Luna was familiar with the challenges ahead.The eleven ships that comprised his fleet were
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