St. Catherines: An Island in Time (Georgia Humanities Council Publication Ser.)

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 inhabitants of the island and about the Spanish presence in Georgia nearly two centuries before the arrival of British colonists. 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. "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 inhabitants of the island and about the Spanish presence in Georgia nearly two centuries before the arrival of British colonists."--Provided by publisher

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 inhabitants of the island and about the Spanish presence in Georgia nearly two centuries before the arrival of British colonists.

St. Catherines: An Island In Time 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.