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St. Catherines : an island in time /

"St. Catherines is the story of how a team of archaeologists found the lost sixteenth-century Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale on the coastal Georgia island now known as St. Catherines. The discovery of mission Santa Catalina has contributed significantly to knowledge about early inha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, David Hurst
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Some fortunate hunter
  • Georgia's invisible Spanish heritage
  • The Black Legend
  • Lost reminders of Spanish Georgia
  • Santa Catalina de Guale : Georgia's oldest known European settlement
  • The Guale Indians
  • How Mission Santa Catalina was rediscovered
  • First clues
  • Space-age technology to the rescue
  • What did Mission Santa Catalina look like?
  • Santa Catalina : Georgia's oldest known church
  • The campo santo (cemetery)
  • The friary (convento) complex
  • New light on Georgia's unwritten past
  • The poverty paradox
  • The preferred Hispanic design for New World living
  • Timeline of significant historical events, St. Catherines Island, Georgia
  • Discussion questions
  • Glossary.