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JOHN E. WORTH
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514
Office: Bldg. 13, Rm. 117 Phone: (850) 857-6204 Fax: (850) 857-6278
Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.uwf.edu/jworth/index.htm
Academia.edu: http://uwf.academia.edu/JohnWorth
Education Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, 1992
B.A./M.A., Anthropology, University of Georgia, 1988
Areas of Specialization Historic/prehistoric archaeology, ethnohistory, paleography, colonialism, creolization,
chiefdoms, landscapes of practice, ceramic analysis, Spanish Florida, Southeastern United
States, Cuba, Mexico.
Employment
August 2007-present: Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Fla.;
Professor (Associate Professor, 2012-2017; Assistant Professor 2007-2012), and Coordinator
of Historical Archaeology Graduate Program.
August 2001-August 2007: Randell Research Center, Florida Museum of Natural History,
University of Florida, Pineland, Fla.; Assistant Director and Coordinator, responsible for on-
site coordination of research and education programs at the Center, including site
management, fundraising, constituency relations, and staff and volunteer supervision.
May 1998-August 2001: Coosawattee Foundation, Calhoun, Ga.; Director of Programs,
responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the Foundation's public
research and education programs in Northwest Georgia, and for all administrative functions
associated with the Foundation’s daily operation and funding.
September 1992-April 1998: Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Ga.;
Anthropologist, responsible for the initial design, development, and implementation of all
aspects of the Museum's public archaeology program focusing on research, education, and
exhibition about the prehistoric Indian cultures of Georgia.
Professional Awards
2018 (as co-PI of the UWF Tristán de Luna y Arellano Project) Daniel G. Roberts Award for
Excellence in Public Historical Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, January 5,
2018.
1999 Rembert Patrick Award for best scholarly book on Florida history (The Timucuan
Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Vols. 1-2), Florida Historical Association, Daytona Beach,
Fla., April 3, 1999.
1998 C.B. Moore Award for "Excellence in Archaeology by a Young Scholar in Southeastern
Studies," Lower Mississippi Survey, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville,
S.C., November 13, 1998.
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Selected Archival Experience
Spain
Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla; Feb.-May and Nov.-Dec. 1991, Mar. 1992, May-Jun. 1994,
Nov.-Dec. 1995, Jan. 1997, Jun. 1999, Jul.-Aug. 2000, Jul.-Aug. 2002, May-Jun. 2004, May-
Jun. 2005, Jun.-Jul. 2008
Biblioteca Nacional, Manuscript Collections, Madrid; Nov. 1995
Archivo Histórico Nacional; Madrid; Nov. 1995
Archivo de la Camara de Comercio, Triana; Nov. 1991
Archivo Parroquial, Church of La Magdalena, Sevilla; Jul. 2002
Cuba
Archivo Nacional de Cuba, La Habana; Oct. 2003, Apr. 2004, Dec. 2017
Archivo Parroquial, Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Guanabacoa; Oct. 2003
Mexico
Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City; May 2008
Archivo Municipal, Veracruz; May 2008
Archivo Parroquial, Cathedral of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Veracruz; May 2008
Selected Archaeological Field Experience Florida
University of West Florida, Luna Settlement Project, Escambia Co., Nov. 2015-present
University of West Florida Terrestrial Archaeological Field School, Pensacola Colonial Frontiers
Project, San Joseph de Escambe Site, Escambia Co., Jun.-Aug. 2009, May-Jul. 2010, May-
Jul. 2011, May-Jul. 2012, May-Jul. 2014, May-Jul. 2015
Randell Research Center; Surf Clam Ridge Excavations; Pineland Site, Lee Co., Jan. 2003-May
2004
Randell Research Center; Calusa Ridge Excavations; Useppa Island, Lee Co., Apr. 2003
Florida Museum of Natural History, Fig Springs South End Excavations; Columbia Co., May-
Sep. 1990
University of Florida Archaeological Field School; Brent R. Weisman, project director; Fig
Springs Site, Columbia Co., Jan.-Aug. 1989
Georgia
The Coosawattee Foundation; Chieftains Museum Site, Floyd Co., GA, May 1999-Aug. 2001
The Coosawattee Foundation, Thompson Mound Site, Gordon Co., GA, Jan. 1999-Aug. 2001
Fernbank Museum of Natural History, McGarity-Etheridge Site, DeKalb Co., GA, Sep. 1997
Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Raccoon Ridge Site, Morgan Co., GA, Feb. 1993-Apr.
1998
University of Georgia Master's Thesis Fieldwork; David J. Hally, major advisor; Middle Flint
River, Apr. 1986-Jun. 1988
Georgia State University Archaeological Field School; Roy S. Dickens, project director; Fork
Creek Mountain Site, DeKalb Co., Jul. 1981
South Carolina
University of South Carolina Archaeological Field School; Chester B. DePratter, project
director; Mulberry Mound Site, Kershaw Co., Jun.-Jul. 1985
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Graduate Committee Membership
Cyndal Mateja; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Patterns and Practice: Lead Glazed Coarse
Earthenwares of the Luna Settlement and Fleet (2019; chair).
Meghan Mumford; MA, Anthropology, UWF; A Tale of Two Early Jails: Using a Curational
Research Approach to Study the Colonial and Antebellum Jails of Pensacola, Florida (2019;
chair).
Eschbach, Krista L.; Ph.D., School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State
University; Mechanisms of Colonial Transformation at the Port of Veracruz and the
Northwest Florida Presidios (2019).
Cody James; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Mapping Colonial Strategies: A Comparison of Spanish
and British Pensacola (2019; chair).
Sappington, Ericha E.; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Facilitating Trade on the Florida Frontier: An
Historical and Archaeological Analysis of Fort San Marcos de Apalache, 1639-1821 (2018;
chair). http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000634/Sappington_Ericha_Elizabeth_201806_MA.pdf
Okray, Jillian H.; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Sister Sawmills: An Historical and Archaeological
Analysis of Households and Socioeconomic Status at Two Second Spanish Period Sawmills
(2018). http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000633/Okray_Jillian_Helene_201806_MA.pdf
Patrick Johnson; Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary; Vengeance
with Mercy: Changing Traditions and Traditional Practices of Colonial Yamasees (2018).
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192790/
Patricia McMahon; MA, Anthropology, UWF; A Study of the First Spanish Occupation of the
Old Christ Church Site (8ES49B) in Downtown Pensacola, Florida (2017).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000627/McMahon_Patricia_Lynne_201806_MA.pdf
Gregg Harding; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Fort Walton Culture and Cultural Change in the
Upper Chipola River Basin (2017).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000614/Harding_Gregg_Evan_201806_MA.pdf
Christopher Thrasher; MA, History, UWF; Surviving Spanish Conquest: Yucatec Maya Social
and Cultural Persistence (2017).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000594/Thrasher_Christopher_Adam_201712_MA.pdf
Stewart Hood; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Espionage and United Fruit: An Analysis of the SS.
San Pablo Using Video Frame Photogrammetry and Multi-Phase Scanning (2017).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000573/Hood_Stewart_Pendleton_201707_MA.pdf
Mercedes Harrold; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Cannon to Crossbows: An Archaeological
Glimpse at Sixteenth-Century Spanish Naval Weapons (2016).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000558/Harrold_Mercedes_Elena_201612_MA.pdf
Charles Bendig; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Studying the 'Hearts' of Ships: Sixteenth-Century
Mainmast Steps and Bilge Pump Assemblies Through an Annales Nautical Archaeological
Perspective (2016).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000551/Bendig_Charles_Dillon_201612_MA.pdf
Michelle Pigott; MA, Anthropology, UWF; The Apalachee after San Luís: Exploring Cultural
Hybridization through Ceramic Practice (2015; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000518/Pigott_Michelle_Marie_201508_MA.pdf
Sarah Bennett; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Cultural Crossroads and Other Complexities:
Examining Creolization at Nuestra Señora del Rosario de la Punta, St. Augustine, Florida
(2015; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000512/Bennett_Sarah_Michelle_201508_MA.pdf
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Jennifer McNiven; MA, Anthropology, UWF; The Question of Anomalies in Slave Archaeology:
Evidence from an Antebellum Industrial Site (2014; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000486/McNiven_Jennifer_Lee_201506_MA.pdf
Kelsey McGuire; MA, Anthropology, UWF; They are Rich Only By The Sea: An Examination of
Calusa Agency in Processes of 16th and Early-17th Century Spanish Shipwreck Salvage
(2014; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000485/McGuire_Kelsey_Marie_201506_MA.pdf
Christina Estep; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Applying Anthropology to Fantasy: A Structural
Analysis of 'The Lord of the Rings (2014).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000478/Estep_Christina_Clare_201506_MA.pdf
Katherine Brewer; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Engendered Death: A Comprehensive Analysis of
Identity in the Mission System of 17th Century Spanish Florida (2014; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000474/Brewer_Katherine_Louise_201506_MA.pdf
Tonya Johnson Chandler; MA, Anthropology, UWF; An Archaeological and Historical Study of
Fort Hampton, Limestone County, Alabama (1809-1816) (2014; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000476/Chandler_Tonya_Danielle_Johnson_201506_MA.pdf
Matthew Gifford; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Everything is Ballast: An Examination of Ballast
Related Practices and Ballast Stones from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2014).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000467/Gifford_Matthew_Julian_201412_MA.pdf
Danielle Dadiego; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Spanish Frontiers: A Study of Social and
Economic Exchange Networks Present in 18th Century Spanish Missions (2014; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000435/Dadiego_Danielle_Lynn_201406_MA.pdf
Lauren Walls; MA, Anthropology, UWF; You Know the Place: Identifying a Special Use Site in
a Region of Enduring Biotic Richness (2014).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000454/Walls_Lauren_Anne_201406_MA.pdf
Sarah Linden; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Materials of Conquest: A Study Using Portable X-Ray
Fluorescence Spectrometry in the Metallurgical Analysis of Two Sixteenth-Century Spanish
Expeditions (2013; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000425/Linden_Sarah_Elizabeth_201312_MA.pdf
Marisa Foster; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Paradox on the Blackwater: The History of an
Unknown Shipwreck (2013).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000440/Foster_Marisa_Lee_201406_MA.pdf
Erica Gifford; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Organic and Inorganic Chemical Characterization of
Artifacts from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2013).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000414/Gifford_Erica_Keenan_201312_MA.pdf
Joseph Grinnan; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Molino Mills: Maritime Cultural Landscape of a
Reconstruction Era Sawmill in Molino, Florida (2013; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000393/Grinnan_Joseph_James_201306_MA.pdf
Sarah Patterson; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Using Cemetery Data to Reconstruct Immigration
and Migration Patterns: St. Michael’s Cemetery, Pensacola, FL (2013; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000404/Patterson_Sarah_Elizabeth_201306_MA.pdf
Stephanie Poole; MA, Anthropology, UWF; The Lady of the Lake and Historic Tourism in the
Lakes Region of New Hampshire (2013; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000407/Poole_Stephanie_Laura_201306_MA.pdf
Scott Sorset; MA, Anthropology, UWF; A Comparison of Ceramics from the Padre Island and
Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2012).
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http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000406/Sorset_Scott_Ryan_201306_MA.pdf
Rachel DeVan Perrine; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Bourbon Field: Preliminary Investigations of
a Barrier Island Plantation Site, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2012; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000364/Perrine_Rachel_Laura_DeVan_201301_MA.pdf
Nicole Bonomo Lipson; MA, Anthropology, UWF; An Investigation into the Identity and
Location of the 1882 Yellow Fever Epidemic Victims in Pensacola, Florida (2012).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000351/Lipson_Nicole_Marie_Bonomo_201301_MA.pdf
Andrew Marr; MA, Anthropology, UWF; A Comprehensive Investigation of Lead Sheathing
from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay (2012).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000360/Marr_Andrew_Wallace_201301_MA.pdf
Morgan Wampler; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Social Identity of the Crew aboard the Nuestra
Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apóstol (2012; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000331/Wampler_Morgan_Heather_201206_MA.pdf
Tiffany Goldhamer; MA, Anthropology, UWF; A River in Name Only: Assessing Submerged
Historic Resources in Kentucky Lake (2012; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000302/Goldhamer_Tiffany_Leda_201205_MA.pdf
Patrick Johnson; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Apalachee Agency on the Gulf Coast Frontier
(2012; chair). http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000301/Johnson_Patrick_Lee_201205_MA.pdf
Matthew Napolitano; MA, Anthropology, UWF; The Role of Back-Barrier Islands in Coastal
Forager Economies (2011; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000307/Napolitano_Matthew_Frank_201205_MA.pdf
Jacob Shidner; MA, Anthropology, UWF; A Macro- and Microscopic Zooarchaeological
Examination of Living Conditions aboard the Emanuel Point Wrecks (2011).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000288/Shidner_Jacob_Daniel_201112_MA.pdf
Linda Suzanne Borgen; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Prelude to Rebellion: Diego de Rebolledo vs.
Lúcas Menéndez in Mid-17th Century Spanish Florida (2011; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000264/Borgen_Linda_Suzanne_Cecelia_201105_MA.pdf
Jennifer Melcher; MA, Anthropology, UWF; More Than Just Copies: Colono Ware as a
Reflection of Multiethnic Interaction on the 18th-Century Spanish Frontier of West Florida
(2011; chair). http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000265/Melcher_Jennifer_Ann_201104_MA.pdf
Siska Williams; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Tracing the Trade: A Proposed Archaeological
Model for Panton, Leslie, and Company Trade Site Types in Second Spanish Florida (2010).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000219/Williams_Siska_Marie_201008_MA.pdf
Colleen Reese Lawrence; MA, Anthropology, UWF; An Analysis of Plant Remains from the
Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2010).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000207/Lawrence_Colleen_Lynn_Reese_201008_MA.pdf
Willet A. Boyer, III; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida; The Acuera of the Ocklawaha
River Valley: Keepers of Time in the Land of the Waters (2010; co-chair).
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0041966/00001
Amanda Roberts; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Secret Exchange: Alternative Economies of
Presidio Santa Maria de Galve and Isla de Santa Rosa (2009; chair).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000179/Roberts_Amanda_Dawn_200908_MA.pdf
James Collis; MA, Anthropology, UWF; Empire’s Reach: A Structural and Historical Analysis
of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck (2008).
http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000117/Collis_James_Daniel_200808_MA.pdf
Willet A. Boyer, III; MA, Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville; Nuestra Señora del
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Rosario de la Punta: Lifeways Of An Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish Refugee Mission
Community, St. Augustine, Florida (2005). http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0010282/00001
Stephen C. Hahn; Ph.D., Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta; The Invention of the
Creek Nation: A Political History of the Creek Indians in the South’s Imperial Era, 1540-
1763 (2000). https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.lib.uwf.edu/docview/304667484
Dea Mozingo; Master of Heritage Preservation, Georgia State University, Atlanta; The Bridge:
Correlating Resource Utilization and Social Complexity at an Upland Site in The Oconee
River Valley (1998). http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42265937
Teaching
Undergraduate Classes - Introduction to Anthropology, Principles of Archaeology, North
American Archaeology, Florida Archaeology, Indians of the Southeast, Method and Theory
in Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Laboratory Methods in Archaeology, Terrestrial
Archaeological Field Methods, Directed Study in Paleography.
Graduate Classes - Spanish Florida in Anthropological Perspective, Seminar in Historical
Archaeology, Historical Research Methods in Archaeology, Advanced Method and Theory in
Archaeology, Advanced Laboratory Methods in Archaeology, Advanced Terrestrial
Archaeological Field Methods, Advanced Laboratory Methods in Archaeology, Proseminar
in Anthropology: Anthropological Perspectives on Colonialism; Directed Study in
Paleography.
Selected Miscellaneous Activities and Awards Present and past professional memberships: Register of Professional Archaeologists, Society for
American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, Southeastern Archaeological
Conference, Florida Archaeological Council, Florida Anthropological Society, Georgia
Council of Professional Archaeologists, Society for Georgia Archaeology, Pensacola
Archaeological Society, Southwest Florida Archaeological Society, Northwest Georgia
Archaeological Society, Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society; board member, Florida
Public Archaeology Network (2012-present); past board member, Southwest Florida
Archaeological Society (2002-2007), Lee County Historic Preservation Board (2003-2007),
Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society (1993-1998); Georgia Council on American Indian
Concerns (2000-2002), Georgia National Historic Register Review Board (1998-2001); past
president (1996-1998) and vice-president (1994-1996) of the Society for Georgia
Archaeology.
Adjunct faculty, University of Florida Department of Anthropology (2005-2015); past adjunct
faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers (2006-2007); University of Georgia,
Athens (2000-2001); Oglethorpe University, Atlanta (1998); and Emory University, Atlanta
(1998).
Invited discussant for symposia:
“From First Floridians to Yesterday’s Tourist: An Almost Unbroken Pattern of Human Use
at Wakulla Springs, North Florida,” org. James S. Dunbar and Willet Boyer, 17st annual
meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Crystal River, FL, May 11, 2019.
“The Yamasee Indians from Florida to South Carolina,” org. Denise I. Bossy and Chester B.
DePratter, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Apr. 16-18, 2015.
“Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonial Encounters at the Berry Site, North Carolina,” org. Robin
Beck, Jr., Christopher B. Rodning, and David Moore, 67th annual Southeastern
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Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY, Oct. 27-30, 2010.
“The Yamasee: A Look at a Once Forgotten Group,” org. Andrea P. White, 62nd annual
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia, S.C., Nov. 2-6, 2005.
Chair, Historical Commission, Cause for Canonization of the Florida Martyrs, 2015-present.
Reviewer of manuscripts for the University of Alabama Press, University of Arizona Press,
University Press of Florida, University of Georgia Press, University of Tennessee Press,
University of Texas Press, Wiley-Blackwell Press, American Antiquity, Early Georgia,
Ethnohistory, Historical Archaeology, International Journal of Historical Archaeology,
Southeastern Archaeology, The Florida Anthropologist, and The William & Mary Quarterly.
Awarded Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, “First-Contact Narratives
from Florida's Lower Gulf Coast: An Annotated Translation Project,” FT-52049-04, $5,000.
Recipient of University of Georgia Foundation Fellowship (1984-1988); University of Florida
Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship (1988-1991); National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship (1988-1991).
Collegiate honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa (1988), Sigma Xi (1988), and Phi Kappa Phi (1988).
Bibliography: Thesis & Dissertation
Worth, John E.
1992 The Timucuan Missions of Spanish Florida and the Rebellion of 1656. Ph.D.
Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00011770/00001
1988 Mississippian Occupation on the Middle Flint River. M.A. Thesis, Department of
Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens.
http://uwf.edu/jworth/WorthThesis1988_nomap.pdf
Bibliography: Books
Worth, John E.
2014 Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives of Spanish Expeditions along the Lower
Gulf Coast. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (ISBN: 978-0813049885).
2007 The Struggle for the Georgia Coast. Reprint of 1995 edition with expanded preface.
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa (ISBN: 978-0817354114).
1998 The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Volume I: Assimilation (ISBN: 978-
0813015743), Volume II: Resistance and Destruction (ISBN: 978-0813015750).
University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1995 The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Retrospective on
Guale and Mocama. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,
Number 75. University of Georgia Press, Athens (ISBN: 978-0820317458).
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/270.
Bibliography: Chapters & Appendices Worth, John E.
n.d. Missions and Colonialism: The View from Spanish Florida, 1513-1763. In Fine-Tuning
the “Big Picture” in the Archaeology of Florida and Beyond, ed. by Ann Cordell.
University Press of Florida, in review.
n.d. Exploring an 18th-Century Refugee Mission in West Florida: Archaeological
Investigations at Mission San Joseph de Escambe. In Unearthing the Missions of Spanish
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Florida, ed. by Tanya M. Peres and Rochelle A. Marrinan. University Press of Florida, in
review.
n.d. “History,” “Prehistory,” and Landscapes of Practice. In The Historical Turn in
Southeastern Archaeology, ed. by Robbie Ethridge and Eric Bowne. University Press of
Florida, in review.
n.d. Spanish Florida and the Southeastern Indians, 1513-1650. In After Contact: Native
Societies in the Southeast during the Early Contact Period, 1500-1700, ed. by Edmond A.
Boudreaux III and Maureen Meyers. University Press of Florida, in press.
2018 The Yamasee in West Florida. In The Yamasee Indians from Florida to South Carolina,
ed. by Denise I. Bossy, pp. 309-338. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
2018 Florida’s Forgotten Colony: Historical Background. In Florida’s Lost Galleon: The
Emanuel Point Shipwreck, ed. by Roger C. Smith, pp. 34-67. University Press of Florida,
Gainesville.
2017 What's in a Phase? Disentangling Communities of Practice from Communities of
Identity in Southeastern North America. In Forging Southeastern Identities: Social
Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, ed.
by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith, pp. 117-156. University of Alabama Press,
Tuscaloosa.
2015 Recollections of the Juan Pardo Expeditions: The Domingo De León Account. In The
Limits of Empire: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site, 1566-1568, ed. by
Robin A. Beck, Christopher B. Rodning, and David G. Moore, pp. 58-80. University Press
of Florida, Gainesville.
2015 Explaining Ceramic Stylistic Variability during the Late Mississippi Period in Northwest
Georgia: A Design Type Analysis of Lamar Bold Incised Pottery. In Archaeological
Perspectives of the Southern Appalachians: A Multiscalar Approach, ed. by Ramie A.
Gougeon and Maureen S. Meyers, pp. 33-58. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
2013 Catalysts of Assimilation: The Role of Franciscan Missionaries in the Colonial System
of Spanish Florida. In From La Florida to La California: Franciscan Evangelization in the
Spanish Borderlands, ed. by Timothy J. Johnson and Gert Melville, pp. 131-142. Academy
of American Franciscan History, Berkeley.
2013 Inventing Florida: Constructing a Colonial Society in an Indigenous Landscape. In
Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest
and Southeast, ed. by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Haecker, pp.
189-201. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2013 Pineland during the Spanish Period. In The Archaeology of Pineland: A Coastal
Southwest Florida Village Complex, A.D. 50-1700, ed. by Karen J. Walker and William H.
Marquardt, pp. 767-792. Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies,
Monograph Number 4, Gainesville.
2012 Enigmatic Origins: On the Yuchi of the Contact Era. In Yuchi Indian Histories Before
the Removal Era, ed. by Jason Baird Jackson, pp. 33-41. University of Nebraska Press,
Lincoln.
2012 An Overview of the Suwannee Valley Culture. In Late Prehistoric Florida:
Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World, ed. by Keith Ashley and Nancy Marie
White, pp. 149-171. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2010 Foreword to The Luna Papers, 1559-1561: Volumes I & 2 (Reprint of 1928 edition).
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
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2009 Ethnicity and Ceramics on the Southeastern Atlantic Coast: An Ethnohistorical
Analysis. In From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indigenous Ceramic Variability (A.D.
1400-1700), ed. by Kathleen Deagan and David Hurst Thomas, pp. 179-207. American
Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers No. 90, New York.
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5987
2009 Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-
1715. In Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and
Regional Instability in the American South, ed. by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall,
pp. 295-311. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
2006 Bridging Prehistory and History in the Southeast: Evaluating the Utility of the
Acculturation Concept. In Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the
Southeastern Indians, ed. by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge, pp. 196-206.
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2004 Guale. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast. Raymond D.
Fogelson, vol. ed.; William C. Sturtevant, gen. ed., pp. 238-244. Smithsonian Institution,
Washington.
2004 Yamasee. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast. Raymond
D. Fogelson, vol. ed.; William C. Sturtevant, gen. ed., pp. 245-253. Smithsonian
Institution, Washington.
2002 Spanish Missions and the Persistence of Chiefly Power. In The Transformation of the
Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, ed. by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson, pp. 39-64.
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.
2001 The Ethnohistorical Context of Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida. In Bioarchaeology
of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism, ed. by Clark Spencer Larsen, pp. 1-21.
University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
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1992 Revised Aboriginal Ceramic Typology for the Timucua Mission Province, A.D. 1597-
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1990 Vertebrate Faunal Analysis for the Walling Mound Site (Ma50): 1986 Excavations. In
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Copena in the Tennessee Valley, by Vernon James Knight, Jr., pp. 129-44. Alabama State
Museum of Natural History, Division of Archaeology, Report of Investigations 56.
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n.d. The Materials of Colonization: Archaeological and Documentary Traces of Tristán de
Luna's Colonial Fleet. In The Destiny of Their Manifests: Modeling Entrada Assemblages
in Sixteenth-Century North America, ed. by Clay Mathers. University of Florida Press,
Gainesville, in press.
Bratten, John R., Gregory D. Cook, and John E. Worth
2008 The Emanuel Point Ship II: Investigation of a Newly-Discovered Sixteenth-Century
Spanish Vessel in Pensacola, Florida. In ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings,
2008, ed. by Susan Langley and Victor Mastone, pp. 45-51. Advisory Council on
Underwater Archaeology.
Bratten, John R., Joseph Cozzi, Della A. Scott-Ireton, Roger C. Smith, James D. Spirek, and
John E. Worth
2018 What We Learned: Conclusions. In Florida’s Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point
Shipwreck, ed. by Roger C. Smith, pp. 236-253. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Cook, Gregory D., John R. Bratten, and John E. Worth
2018 New Discoveries: Epilogue. In Florida’s Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point Shipwreck,
ed. by Roger C. Smith, pp. 254-259. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Galloway, Patricia, Marvin D. Jeter, Gregory A. Waselkov, John E. Worth, and Ives Goddard
2004 Small Tribes of the Western Southeast. In Handbook of North American Indians,
Volume 14: Southeast, Raymond D. Fogelson, vol. ed.; William C. Sturtevant, gen. ed., pp.
174-190. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Hudson, Charles M., John E. Worth, and Chester B. DePratter
1990 Refinements in Hernando de Soto’s Route through Georgia and South Carolina. In
Columbian Consequences, Volume 2: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the
Spanish Borderlands East, ed. by David Hurst Thomas, pp. 107-119. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution Press.
Knight, Vernon James, and John E. Worth
n.d. A Cuban Origin for Glades Pottery?: A Provocative Hypothesis Revisited. In Fine-
Tuning the “Big Picture” in the Archaeology of Florida and Beyond, ed. by Ann Cordell.
University Press of Florida, in review.
Bibliography: Journal Articles
Worth, John E.
2012 Creolization in Southwest Florida: Cuban Fishermen and "Spanish Indians," ca. 1766-
1841. Historical Archaeology 46(1): 142-160.
2009 Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It. The Florida
Anthropologist 62(3-4): 83-92.
1996 Upland Lamar, Vining, and Cartersville: An Interim Report from Raccoon Ridge. Early
Georgia 24(1):34--83.
1995 Fontaneda Revisited: Five Descriptions of Sixteenth-Century Florida. Florida Historical
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1993 Prelude to Abandonment: The Interior Provinces of Early 17th-Century Georgia. Early
Georgia 21(1): 24-58.
1989 Mississippian Mound Centers along Chickasawhatchee Swamp. LAMAR Briefs 13: 7-9.
Hudson, Charles, Robin A. Beck, Jr., Chester B. DePratter, Robbie Ethridge, and John Worth
2008 On Interpreting Cofitachequi. Ethnohistory 55(3): 465-490.
Stephenson, Keith, John E. Worth, and Frankie Snow
1990 A Savannah Period Mound in the Upper-Interior Coastal Plain of Georgia. Early
Georgia 18: 41-64.
Thompson, Victor D., and John E. Worth
2010 Dwellers by the Sea: Native American Adaptations along the Southern Coasts of Eastern
North America. Journal of Archaeological Research 19(1):51-101.
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Thompson, Victor D., Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and John E. Worth
2018 The Political Ecology of the Event in Calusa Colonial Entanglements. In Uneven
Terrain: Archaeologies of Political Ecology, ed. by John K. Millhauser, Christopher T.
Morehart, and Santiago Juarez, pp. 68-82. Archeological Papers of the American
Anthropological Association, v. 29.
Worth, John E., Elizabeth D. Benchley, Janet R. Lloyd, and Jennifer Melcher
2019 The Discovery and Exploration of Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 Settlement on Pensacola
Bay. Historical Archaeology, in press.
Worth, John E., and W. Maxwell Duke
1991 Hogcrawl Creek: Early Mississippi Period Occupation in the Middle Flint River
Floodplain. Early Georgia 19(1): 19-42.
Worth, John E., and Jennifer Melcher
[in revision] Revised Typology for Historic Period Native American Ceramics in Northwest
Florida. Draft manuscript submitted to Southeastern Archaeology.
Bibliography: Presented Papers
Worth, John E.
2020 Recent Archaeological Investigations at the 1559-1561 Settlement of Tristán de Luna y
Arellano on Pensacola Bay. Paper presented in the symposium “Plus Ultra: An
Examination of Current Research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial
Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere,” organized by Christopher E. Horrell, Kristi M.
Nichols, and Melanie Damour, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical
Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11, 2020.
2019 The Luna Settlement in Archaeological and Documentary Perspective. Paper presented
in the symposium “Exploring the Settlement and Fleet of Tristán de Luna,” organized by
John E. Worth and John R. Bratten, at the 37th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities
Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.
2019 Between Soto and Menéndez: Archaeology at the Luna Settlement on Pensacola Bay.
Paper presented at the 2019 Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology,
Swannanoa, N.C., August 9-10, 2019.
2019 Functional and Spatial Patterning in Artifact Distribution at the Luna Settlement Site.
Paper presented at the 71st Annual Conference of the Florida Anthropological Society,
Crystal River, Florida, May 11, 2019.
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2019 From Accommodation to Massacre: Evolving Native Responses to Spanish Military
Expeditions in the Interior Southeast, 1540-1568. Paper presented in the symposium “The
Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance” organized by Matthew Schmader at the
84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, April 13, 2019.
2018 Archaeological and Documentary Insights into the Native World of the Luna
Expedition. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Augusta, Ga., November 16, 2018.
2018 New Insights into Spanish-Native Relations during the Luna Expedition, 1559-1561.
Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, St.
Petersburg, Florida, May 12, 2018.
2018 Linking Archaeological and Documentary Evidence for Material Culture in Mid-
Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida: The View from the Luna Settlement and Fleet. Paper
presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, New
Orleans, Louisiana, January 3-6, 2018.
2017 Tying it All Together: History, Process, and the Nature of Culture. Paper presented in
the symposium “The Historical Turn in Archaeology,” organized by Robbie Ethridge and
Eric Bowne, at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 8-11, 2017.
2017 The Changing Role of Missionaries and Missions in Spanish Florida, 1513-1763. Paper
presented in the conference “Spanish Missions in Florida and the Borderlands,” Monticello,
Florida, October 6-7, 2017.
2017 Spanish Florida and the Southeastern Indians, 1513-1650. Paper presented at the 38th
Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Oxford, Mississippi, July 20-30, 2017.
2017 The Luna Expedition: An Overview from the Documents. Paper presented in the
symposium “The Tristan de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola,
Florida,” organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the
Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.
2016 Interpreting Spanish Artifact Assemblages in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Southeast: The
View from the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement on Pensacola Bay. Paper presented
in the symposium “Documenting Early European/Native American Contacts and their
Repercussions in the Southeast: A Symposium honoring Marvin T. Smith” at the 73rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Athens, GA, October 27,
2016.
2016 Materialized Landscapes of Practice:Exploring Native American Ceramic Variability in
the Historic-Era Southeastern United States. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida, April 9, 2016.
2016 Preliminary Observations on the Archaeological Assemblage of the 1559-1561 Tristán
de Luna Settlement. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Society for
Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 2016.
2015 Shifting Landscapes of Practice in the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain during the Colonial
Era. Paper presented in the symposium “Contact, Persistence and Change: Protohistoric
and Early Historic Archaeology of the Gulf Coastal Plain” at the 72nd Annual Meeting of
the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Nashville, TN, Nov. 19-21, 2015.
2015 Precursors of Missionization: Early European Contact on the Georgia Coast, 1514-1587.
Paper presented in the “2015 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David Hurst
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Thomas” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San
Francisco, California, Apr. 17, 2015.
2013 From Island to Mainland: The Spanish Transfer from Presidio Santa Rosa to San Miguel
de Panzacola. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological
Society, St. Augustine, Florida, May 11, 2013.
2012 Bridging History and Prehistory: General Reflections and Particular Quandries. Paper
presented in the symposium “Bridging Prehistory and History” at the 69th Annual Meeting
of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 7-10, 2012.
2011 Catalysts of Assimilation: The Role of Franciscan Missionaries in the Colonial System
of Spanish Florida. Paper presented at the international Franciscan conference “From La
Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan Evangelization in the
Spanish Borderlands,” St. Augustine, Florida, March 24-26, 2011.
2010 Explaining Ceramic Stylistic Variability during the Late Mississippi Period in Northwest
Georgia: A Design Type Analysis of Lamar Bold Incised Pottery. Paper presented at the
67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, Kentucky,
October 27-30, 2010.
2010 Creolization in Southwest Florida: Cuban Fishermen and "Spanish Indians," ca. 1766-
1841. Paper presented in the symposium “Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis,
Colonialism and Resistance: Florida in Global Perspective” at the Annual Conference of
the Society for Historical Archaeology, Amelia Island, Florida, January 6-9, 2010.
2009 Forging a New Identity in Florida’s Refugee Missions. Paper presented in the
symposium “Missions and Frontiers in Spanish America” at the 53rd International
Conference of Americanists, Mexico City, July 24, 2009.
2009 Inventing Florida: Constructing a Colonial Society in an Indigenous Landscape. Paper
presented in the symposium “Native and Imperial Morphogenesis: Comparing 16th
Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast,” at the 74th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 Tristan de Luna's Doomed Fleet: The View from the Documents. Paper presented in the
symposium “The Spanish Colonization Fleet of Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano:
Archaeological Investigations of Emanuel Point Ships I and II” at the Annual Conference
of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Toronto, Canada, January 10, 2009.
2009 Explaining Native American Ceramic Variability in the Early Historic Southeast. Paper
presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Toronto,
Canada, January 8, 2009.
2008 Rediscovering Pensacola’s Lost Spanish Missions. Paper presented at the 65th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina,
November 12-15, 2008.
2008 Revisiting the 1559 Colonial Feet of Tristán de Luna y Arellano. Paper presented at the
annual conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History, Pensacola, Florida.
2008 The Earliest Years: Europeans on the Georgia Coast, 1514-1587. Paper presented in the
symposium “Archaeological Encounters in Georgia’s Spanish Period: New Discoveries and
Improved Understandings” at the spring mtg. of the Society for Georgia Archaeology,
Atlanta.
2008 Rethinking Colonial Frontiers in the Southeastern United States: The View from
Spanish Florida. Paper presented in the symposium “The Social Archaeology of
Southeastern Colonial Frontiers,” Columbia, South Carolina.
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2008 An Ethnohistorical Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in South Florida. Paper
presented in the symposium “The Emergence of Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in South
Florida” at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Vancouver, British Columbia.
2008 Sapelo Island during the Spanish Colonial Era. Paper presented in the symposium “Five
Cultures, One Island: Historic Archaeologies on Sapelo Island, Georgia” at the Annual
Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2007 An Overview of the Suwannee Valley Culture. Paper presented in the symposium “A
New Look at the ‘Mississippi’ Period in Florida” at the 64th Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2006 The Social Geography of South Florida during the Spanish Colonial Era. Paper
presented in the symposium “From Coast to Coast: Current Research in South Florida
Archaeology” at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
2005 Exploring Early Pineland: 2003-2004 Excavations at Surf Clam Ridge. Paper presented
at the 62nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia,
South Carolina.
2004 A History of Southeastern Indians in Cuba, 1513-1823. Paper presented at the 61st
annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.
2003 An Ethnohistorical Synthesis of Southeastern Chiefdoms: How does Coosa compare?
Paper presented in the symposium “Coosa: Twenty Years Later” at the 60th annual meeting
of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2003 The Evacuation of South Florida, 1704-1760. Paper presented at the 60th annual
meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2002 Reign of Terror: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-
1715. Paper presented in the symposium “The Social History of the Southeastern Indians:
The Seventeenth-Century Indian Slave Trade and the Creation of a Shatter Zone” at the
59th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi.
2001 Bridging Prehistory and History in the Southeast: A Critique of Acculturation Studies.
Paper presented in the symposium “The Social History of the Southeastern Indians: Papers
in Honor of Charles Hudson” at the 58th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological
Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
2000 New Excavations in the Heart of the Coosa Chiefdom: A Status Report on Fieldwork at
the Thompson Site (9Go4) Paper presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia.
2000 The Yamassee in Florida: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Overview. Paper
presented in the symposium “A Synthesis of Mississippian and Historic Period Native
Americans in South Carolina” at the 57th annual meeting of the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia.
1999 Coastal Chiefdoms and the Question of Agriculture: An Ethnohistorical Overview.
Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,
Pensacola.
1999 Yamassee Origins and the Development of the Carolina-Florida Frontier. Paper
presented at the fifth annual conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Austin, Texas.
1998 Missions of the Camino Real: Timucua and the Colonial System of Spanish Florida.
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Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Seattle.
1998 Spanish Missions and the Persistence of Chiefly Power. Paper presented at the 1998
Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium "Early Social History of the Southeastern
Indians, 1526-1715," Oxford, Mississippi.
1997 Integrating Ethnohistory and Archaeology among the Timucua: An Overview of
Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida. Paper presented in the symposium "Late
Prehistoric through Mission Period Research in the Coastal Timucuan Region" at the 54th
annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge.
1997 New Insights into Spanish Florida's Mission Chiefdoms. Paper presented in the
symposium "New Approaches to Precolumbian American Social Organization,"
Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia.
1997 The Eastern Creek Frontier: History and Archaeology of the Flint River Towns,
ca. 1750-1826. Paper presented in the symposium "Recent Advances in Lower Creek
Archaeology" at the annual conference of the Society for American Archaeology,
Nashville.
1997 The Ethnohistorical Context of Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida. Paper presented in
the symposium "Bioarchaeology in Northern Frontier New Spain" at the annual conference
of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis.
1995 Upland Occupation at the Raccoon Ridge Site (9Mg271): Three Years of Public
Archaeology at Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Paper presented at the 52nd annual
meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville.
1994 Exploration and Trade in the Deep Frontier of Spanish Florida: Possible Sources for
16th-Century Spanish Artifacts in Western North Carolina. Paper presented in the
symposium "A Consideration of Archaeological and Documentary Evidence for 16th- and
17th-Century Spanish and Native Contact in Western North Carolina" at the 51st annual
meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington.
1992 Timucua and the Colonial System in Florida: The Rebellion of 1656. Paper presented in
the symposium "New Perspectives on the Spanish Colonial Experience" at the 25th
conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Kingston, Jamaica.
1991 Rebellion in Timucua: An Aboriginal Society in Decline. Paper presented at the 48th
annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson.
1990 Archaeology in the Timucua Mission Province: 1990 Excavations at Fig Springs (8Co1),
South End Village. Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Mobile.
1989 Extralocal Shell Tempered Ceramics in the Timucua Mission Province. Paper presented
at the 46th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa.
1988 Archaeological Investigation of a Mississippian Fall-Line Chiefdom on the Middle Flint
River. Paper presented at the Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting of the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, New Orleans.
Worth, John E., and Elizabeth D. Benchley
2015 Pensacola and the Edge of Empire. Paper presented at the Joint Thematic Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology and the European Association of Archaeologists
“Connecting Continents: Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade and Colonialism,”
Curaçao, November 5-7, 2015.
Worth, John E., Elizabeth D. Benchley, Janet R. Lloyd, and Jennifer Melcher
2017 The Discovery and Exploration of Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 Settlement on Pensacola
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Bay. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society,
Jacksonville, Florida, May 6, 2017.
Worth, John E., and John R. Bratten
2014 The Materials of Colonization: Archaeological and Documentary Traces of Tristán de
Luna's Colonial Fleet. Paper presented in the symposium “The Destiny of their Manifests:
Modeling Sixteenth-Century Entrada Assemblages in North America” at the 79th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 26, 2014.
Worth, John E., Norma J. Harris, and Jennifer Melcher
2011 San Joseph de Escambe: A 18th-Century Apalachee Mission in the West Florida
Borderlands. Paper presented at the 2011 Conference of the Society for Historical
Archaeology, Austin, Texas, January 8, 2011.
Worth, John E., Norma J. Harris, Jennifer Melcher, and Danielle Dadiego
2012 Exploring Mission Life in 18th-Century West Florida:2011 Excavations at San Joseph
de Escambe. Paper presented at the 2012 Conference of the Society for Historical
Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland, January 6, 2012.
Worth, John E., and Norma J. Harris
2012 Mission San Joseph de Escambe: An Eighteenth-Century Apalachee Village in the
Pensacola Borderlands. Paper presented at the 2012 Conference of the Florida
Anthropological Society, Tallahassee, May 12, 2012.
Benchley, Elizabeth D., and John E. Worth
2017 Discovery and Investigation of the Luna Settlement. Paper presented in the symposium
“The Tristan de Luna Shipwrecks and Settlement (1559-1561) in Pensacola, Florida,”
organized by Elizabeth D. Benchley, at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for
Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 2017.
Bolte, Christina L., and John E. Worth
2019 A “Snapshot” of the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Colonial Culture of New Spain: the 1559-
1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay. Paper presented in the
symposium “The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance” organized by Matthew
Schmader at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2019.
2017 A Sixteenth Century Spanish-Mexican Artifact Assemblage in the Southeast: The 1559-
1561 Tristán de Luna Settlement, Pensacola, Florida. Paper presented at the 74th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 8-
11, 2017.
Knight, Vernon James, and John E. Worth
2006 A Cuban Origin for Glades Pottery?: A Provocative Hypothesis Revisited. Paper
presented in the symposium “Jerry's Kids: Papers in Honor of Jerald T. Milanich” at the
63rd annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Shreve, Nathan, John E. Worth, Christina L. Bolte, and Jay D. Franklin
2019 Correlating Material Culture with Documentary Evidence for the Early Spanish Trans-
Appalachian Northwest Trajectory into East Tennessee. Paper presented at the 2019
Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology, Swannanoa, N.C., August 9-10,
2019.
Shreve, Nathan, Jay Franklin, Eileen Ernenwein, and John Worth
2018 Reconsidering the Spanish Routes, Fort Placements, and Native American Networks in
lieu of a Northwest Trajectory across the Southern Appalachians. Paper presented at the
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75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Augusta, Ga.,
November 16, 2018.
Smith, Marvin T., David J. Hally, and John E. Worth
2008 Sixteenth-Century European Artifact Dispersion in the Southeast. Paper presented at the
65th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North
Carolina.
Smith, Marvin T., and John E. Worth
1994 Spanish Missions of the Northern Timucua Province. Paper presented at the 51st annual
meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington.
Thompson, Victor D., Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and John E. Worth
2013 The Political Ecology of Guale and Calusa Social Action in Early Colonial
Entanglements. Paper presented in the symposium “Uneven Terrain: Archaeologies of
Political Ecology in Comparative Perspective” at the 112th annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Worth, John E.
2007 Archaeological Excavations at the Pineland Site (8LL33): The Surf Clam Ridge Project,
2003-2004. Report submitted to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, Division
of Historical Resources, Permit #0203.30, June 30, 2007.
2004 Report on Cuban Fishing Industry Documents Reviewed and Discovered in the Archivo
Nacional de Cuba in Havana, April 2004. Report submitted to Paul F. Miller, Jr. and the
Useppa Island Historical Society, April 30, 2004.
2004 Evidence for the Locations of Guale Missions in 1597 (with notes on possible locations
for physical remains of the martyrs). Report submitted to Father Conrad Harkins, Vice
Postulator for the Cause of the Georgia Martyrs, April 7, 2004.
2004 Rediscovering a Lost Georgia Battlefield: The 1702 “Battle of the Blankets” along the
Lower Flint River. Report submitted to the Worth County Historical Society and the
Georgia Historical Society, January 16, 2004.
2001 A Primer on Georgia’s American Indian Heritage. Essay submitted to the Georgia
Council for American Indian Concerns for use with proposed tribal recognition guidelines,
November 29, 2001.
2001 A Slice of Southwest Georgia Prehistory: The President James Earl Carter Artifact
Collection. Report submitted on CD to President Carter. The Coosawattee Foundation,
Calhoun, Georgia.
2000 Chieftains Revisited: An Historical and Archaeological Overview. Report submitted to
Chieftains Museum, Rome, Georgia. The Coosawattee Foundation, Calhoun, Georgia.
1998 Whitfield County Archaeological Resource Survey: Overview of Resource Base, 1998.
Report submitted to the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners, Dalton, Georgia. The
Coosawattee Foundation, Calhoun, Georgia.
1998 A Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of Ichauway Plantation, Baker County,
Georgia, 1998. Report submitted to the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at
Ichauway, Newton, Georgia. The Coosawattee Foundation, Calhoun, Georgia.
1996 Managing Archaeological Resources in Riverine Floodplain Corridors: An Historical
Impact Assessment for the Flint River Fall-Line Zone. Report submitted to the Historic
Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as part of the Flood
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Recovery for Historic Preservation Grant Program. Georgia Archaeological Site Files,
Athens, Report No. 1659.
Cook, Gregory D., John Bratten, John E. Worth, Kendra Kennedy, Dean Nones, and Scott Sorset
2009 Emanuel Point II Underwater Archaeology, Grant No. SC716. Report of Investigations
#164, Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida, Pensacola.
Cook, Gregory D., John Bratten, and John E. Worth
2016 Exploring Luna’s 1559 Fleet: Final Report for Florida Division of Historic Resources
Special Category Grant SC 503. Report of Investigations #202, Archaeology Institute,
University of West Florida, Pensacola.
Eschbach, Krista L., and John E. Worth
2009 Interim Report, The Colonial Connection of New Spain and Spanish West Florida:
Phase I, Veracruz and Medellín (reviewed and edited by Judith A. Bense and Judith
Hernández Aranda). Report prepared for the Archaeological Council of the Instituto
Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia, Mexico. Report of Investigations #165,
Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida, Pensacola.
Knight, Vernon James, Ashley Brooke Persons, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Lee A. Newsom, and
John E. Worth
2009 Archaeological Investigations at El Chorro de Maíta, Holguín Province, Cuba, 2008
Season. Report of research carried out under a cooperative agreement between CISAT-
Holguin and the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, with funding from
National Geographic Society Committee for Research & Exploration grant number 8476-
08.
Ledbetter, Jerald, Robbie Ethridge, Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, William G. Moffat, Lisa D.
O’Steen, and John Worth
2002 Archaeological Investigations at Buzzard Roost, 9Tr41, 9Tr54, and 9Tr106, Taylor
County, Georgia. Report submitted by Southeastern Archaeological Services, Inc. to the
Georgia Department of Transportation.
Persons, Ashley Brooke, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Vernon James Knight, Lourdes Pérez Iglesias,
and John E. Worth
2008 Archaeological Investigations at El Chorro de Maíta, Holguín Province, Cuba, 2007
Season. Report of research carried out under a cooperative agreement between CISAT-
Holguin and the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, with funding from
National Geographic Society Committee for Research & Exploration grant number 7776-
05.
Weisman, Russell M., S. Dwight Kirkland, and John E. Worth
1997 An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Proposed Trail Ridge Mine, Charlton County,
Georgia. Report submitted by Southern Research to Golder Associates, Inc.
Bibliography: Book Reviews
Worth, John E.
2008 Review of Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca,
ed. by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2006). The
Florida Anthropologist 61(3-4): 213-214.
2008 Review of Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836, by H.
Thomas Foster II (University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2007). Ethnohistory 55(4):
691-693.
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2006 Review of Indians of Central and South Florida, 1513-1763, by John H. Hann
(University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2003). Historical Archaeology 40(2): 85-86.
1999 Review of The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis, by John H. Hann and Bonnie
G. McEwan (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1998). Southeastern Archaeology
18(1): 81-2.
1999 Review of Laboring in the Fields of the Lord, by Jerald T. Milanich (Smithsonian
Institution, Washington Press, 1999). Historical Archaeology.
1998 Review of How to Do Archaeology the Right Way, by Barbara A. Purdy (University
Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996). The Georgia Historical Quarterly 82(4): 878-80.
1995 Review of Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986, ed. David J. Hally (Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1994). The Georgia Historical Quarterly 79(3): 703-5.
1994 Review of The Spanish Missions of La Florida, ed. Bonnie G. McEwan (University
Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1993). The Georgia Historical Quarterly 78(2): 385-87.
Bibliography: Posters
Walker, Karen J., William H. Marquardt, Merald R. Clark, John LoCastro, Darcie A.
MacMahon, and John E. Worth
2005 Modeling and Presenting Sixteenth-Century Pineland. Poster presented at the 62nd
annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia, South Carolina,
Nov. 4.
Bibliography: Publications for General Audiences (Selected)
Worth, John E.
2019 Pottery Vessels in Sixteenth-Century Spain. Luna Settlement Project Blog, August 30,
2019. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2019/08/pottery-vessels-in-sixteenth-
century.html
2019 What’s the Value of an Artifact? Luna Settlement Project Blog, May 23, 2019.
http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2019/05/whats-value-of-artifact.html
2019 Dining at the Luna Settlement. Luna Settlement Project Blog, April 7, 2019.
http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2019/04/dining-at-lunasettlement-john-e.html.
2017 Establishing the Size of Luna’s Settlement. Luna Settlement Project Blog, August 10,
2017. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2017/08/.
2017 Crossbows and the Luna Expedition. Luna Settlement Project Blog, July 20, 2017.
http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2017/07/.
2017 Dominican Missionaries and the Luna Expedition. Luna Settlement Project Blog, June
10, 2017. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2017/06/dominican-missionaries-and-
luna.html
2017 The Royal Warehouse at the Luna Settlement. Luna Settlement Project Blog, May 31,
2017. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-royal-warehouse-at-luna-
settlement.html.
2017 Feeding the Luna Expedition: What did mid-16th-century Spaniards normally eat? (Part
2). Luna Settlement Project Blog, May 24, 2017.
http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2017/05/feeding-luna-expedition-what-did-
mid_24.html.
2017 Feeding the Luna Expedition: What did mid-16th-century Spaniards normally eat? Luna
Settlement Project Blog, May 18, 2017.
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http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2017/05/feeding-luna-expedition-what-did-mid.html.
2016 What do the documents say about where Luna’s settlement was situated? Luna
Settlement Project Blog, July 1, 2016. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2016/07/what-
do-documents-say-about-where-lunas.html.
2016 How large would Tristán de Luna’s 1559-1561 settlement have been? Luna Settlement
Project Blog, June 18, 2016. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-large-
would-tristan-de-lunas-1559.html.
2016 Trade goods or residential debris: are all sixteenth-century Spanish artifact assemblages
the same? Luna Settlement Project Blog, June 3, 2016.
http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/2016/06/trade-goods-or-residential-debris-are.html.
2012 European Exploration of Florida. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities Council.
2012 Juan Ponce de León. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities Council.
2012 Pánfilo de Narváez. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities Council.
2012 Hernando de Soto. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities Council.
2012 Juan Garrido. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities Council.
2012 Estéban Dorantes. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities Council.
2012 Pensacola during the Settlement Period. In TeachingFlorida.org. Florida Humanities
Council.
2009 Florida’s Spanish Colonial Heritage. In Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail, pp. 6-
12. Visit Florida, Tallahassee.
2009 Juan Ponce de León, 1460-1521. In Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail, p. 52.
Visit Florida, Tallahassee.
2009 Tristán de Luna, 1519-1573. In Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail, p. 17. Visit
Florida, Tallahassee.
2007 To Enslave or Not To Enslave: The Colonial Fate of South Florida’s Indian People.
Friends of the Randell Research Center Newsletter 6(2):1-2.
2006 Shifting Tides: The Origins of Commercial Fishing in Southwest Florida. Expressions
Magazine, WGCU Public Media, Fort Myers.
2006 Early Spanish Visits to Southwest Florida: A Busy Decade after First Contact. Friends
of the Randell Research Center Newsletter 5(4):1.
2006 Early African Heritage in Southwest Florida: Free and Enslaved Africans on Early 19th-
Century Pine Island, Useppa. Friends of the Randell Research Center Newsletter 5(3):2.
2006 Details Emerge on “Spanish Indians” of Useppa Island. Friends of the Randell Research
Center Newsletter 5(2): 2.
2006 Early Anglo-American Settlers Source of Local Place Names. Friends of the Randell
Research Center Newsletter 5(1): 3.
2005 Extra-local Stone at Surf Clam Ridge. Friends of the Randell Research Center
Newsletter 4(4): 3.
2005 The Pineland Site and Calusa-Spanish Relations, 1612-1614. Friends of the Randell
Research Center Newsletter 4(2):1.
2004 Our Cuba Connection. Fort Myers News Press, Tropicalia Section, July 4, 2004, pp. 8-9.
2004 Pits and Postmolds. Friends of the Randell Research Center Newsletter 3(2):2.
2004 Cubans and Creek Indian People in Southwest Florida. Friends of the Randell Research
Center Newsletter 3(2):1.
2004 Surf Clam Ridge Excavations in Full Swing. Friends of the Randell Research Center
Newsletter 3(1):1-2.
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2003 Cuban Parish Records Reveal Immigrant Calusa Indians. Friends of the Randell
Research Center Newsletter 2(4):1.
2003 FLMNH Scientists Converge on Pineland Dig. Friends of the Randell Research Center
Newsletter 2(2):4.
2003 New Fieldwork at Pineland. Friends of the Randell Research Center Newsletter 2(1):1.
2003 Spanish Exploration. In The New Georgia Encyclopedia, ed. John C. Inscoe. Online
publication at: www. georgiaencyclopedia.org
2003 Spanish Missions in Georgia. In The New Georgia Encyclopedia, ed. John C. Inscoe.
Online publication at: www. georgiaencyclopedia.org
2002 Tracking the Calusa Overseas. Friends of the Randell Research Center Newsletter
1(4):1.
2002 Original Location of Tampa? Friends of the Randell Research Center Newsletter 1(2):3.
2001 Commentary on The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida. In “Book Commentaries
II: The East and Pre-Nineteenth Century Wars.” Journal of the Indian Wars 2(1): 24.
1998-2003 Georgia Before Oglethorpe: A Resource Guide to Georgia's Early Colonial Era,
1521-1733. Online publication, presently hosted at www.lostworlds.org
1997 Indians and Spaniards on the Georgia Coast: Predecessors of the English Fort King
George at "Las Bocas de Talaje." In Drums Along the Altamaha.
1997 Digging for Documents: Clues to the First Georgians in Spanish Archives. Fernbank
Quarterly 22(3-4): 20-26.
1995 Where did all the Indians go? [Revised from "Before Creek and Cherokee," Fernbank
Quarterly 18(3)] Georgia Journal 15(3): 31-36.
1995 The First Georgians: The Mississippi Period, A.D. 900-1540, An Overview. Fernbank
Quarterly 20(4): 2-9.
1995 The First Georgians: The Woodland Period, 1,000 B.C.-900 A.D., An Overview.
Fernbank Quarterly 20(3): 24-30.
1995 Digging into Georgia's Past: An Update on Public Archaeology at Raccoon Ridge.
Fernbank Quarterly 20(2): 24-29.
1994 The First Georgians: The Late Archaic Period, 3,000-1,000 B.C. Fernbank Quarterly
19(4): 22-30.
1994 The First Georgians: The Middle Archaic Period, 6,000-3,000 B.C. Fernbank Quarterly
19(3): 6-13.
1994 The First Georgians: The Early Archaic Period, 7,900-6,000 B.C. Fernbank Quarterly
19(2): 18-24.
1993 The First Georgians: The Paleo-Indian Period, 9,500-7,900 B.C. Fernbank Quarterly
19(1): 22-31.
1993 The First Georgians: Georgia Indians in Time and Space. Fernbank Quarterly 18(4): 2-
5.
1993 Before Creek and Cherokee: Georgia Indians during the Early Colonial Era. Fernbank
Quarterly 18(3): 18-27.
1993 What's in a Name? Geographical Names in the Lobby of the Fernbank Museum of
Natural History. Fernbank Quarterly 18(2): 24-25.
Bratten, John R., and John E. Worth
2009 Shipwrecked History. American Heritage 59(2): 44-49.
Clune, John, Margo Stringfield, and John Worth
2009 Pensacola’s Spanish Legacy. In Miguel Zapata: An Eternal Perspective (Exhibit
Worth c.v. 22 of 22 Version 1/6/20
Catalog), Pensacola Museum of Art.
Smith, Marvin T., and John E. Worth
2019 A Crazy 16th-Century Chevron Bead. The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of
Bead Researchers 75:5-6.
Bibliography: Online Websites and Blogs
Worth, John E.
2016-present Luna Settlement Project Blog. http://lunasettlement.blogspot.com/
2014-present John Worth’s Occasional Blog Posts. http://jworthblog.blogspot.com/
2009-present Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Blog.
http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/
2007-present Faculty Homepage for John Worth. http://pages.uwf.edu/jworth/index.html