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Downtown Survey: The Discovery of Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine in an Urban Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kathleen Deagan
Kathleen Deagan*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
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Abstract

A subsurface, modified systematic survey using a mechanical soil auger was carried out in downtown St. Augustine, Florida in 1976. The purpose of the survey, done in conjunction with historians and planners, was to locate the boundaries of the sixteenth-century Spanish settlement founded in 1565. The auger survey attained this goal, and the results were confirmed by three years of subsequent test excavations. The survey comprised the first stage in an ongoing cultural inventory and site assessment program for planning in St. Augustine, and has subsequently been extended to cover the entire corporate limits of the city. Having been tested through the excavation, the auger survey has proven to be a reliable method of revealing subsurface occupational and temporal patterning. It is also a fast, inexpensive and nondestructive survey method for the modern urban environment.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 626 - 634
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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