{"id":105961,"date":"2020-04-24T05:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/archaeologists-verify-floridas-mound-key-as-location-of-elusive-spanish-fort"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:03:46","slug":"archaeologists-verify-floridas-mound-key-as-location-of-elusive-spanish-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/archaeologists-verify-floridas-mound-key-as-location-of-elusive-spanish-fort","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists verify Florida\u2019s Mound Key as location of elusive Spanish fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archaeologists-verify-floridas-mound-key-as-location-of-elusive-spanish-fort3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida and Georgia archaeologists have discovered the location of Fort San Ant\u00f3n de Carlos, home of one of the first Jesuit missions in North America. The Spanish fort was built in 1566 in the capital of the Calusa, the most powerful Native American tribe in the region, on present-day Mound Key in the center of Estero Bay on Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists and historians have long suspected that the fort, named for the Catholic patron saint of lost things, was located on Mound Key. Researchers have been searching for concrete evidence in the area since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore our work, the only information we had was from Spanish documents, which suggested that the Calusa capital was on Mound Key and that Fort San Ant\u00f3n de Carlos was there, too,\u201d said William Marquardt, curator emeritus of South Florida archaeology and ethnography at the Florida Museum of Natural History. \u201cArchaeologists and historians had visited the site and collected pottery from the surface, but until we found physical evidence of the Calusa king\u2019s house and the fort, we could not be absolutely certain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida and Georgia archaeologists have discovered the location of Fort San Ant\u00f3n de Carlos, home of one of the first Jesuit missions in North America. The Spanish fort was built in 1566 in the capital of the Calusa, the most powerful Native American tribe in the region, on present-day Mound Key in the center of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}