So this is a a piece of paper pottery huge discoveries are often made from the
smallest
and most seemingly insignificant vitamins
comes from a a small char through which are either
be used for sabes or ointment little medicine jar
and its very easly David to
permit too late sixteenth-century
analysis if the chemical makeup the paint in the pottery
the design of the item a review of the historical
and archaeological record it all plays a part
in identifying a new discovery his Spanish pottery
and this is an example
friend or call all sure you can see it's glazed on the interior
has a ripples through surface
map comes from having been thrown on a partial they are
tiny fragments snippets love life long ago
they provide little information separately
this is classic small male so
you can see its hand wrought and you look at this
low-ball for use marketplace you know they're
arc forces with them which is for though oldest
for a firearm but collectively archaeologist doctor david moore calls
the items
the long-sought evidence the first in one fort
built by Europeans in the new world principally
includes artifacts that would be carried in use by the Spanish soldiers
themselves
it's not a trade with some bush it occupations
the items were discovered during the excavation have a Native American
village
called you are a which was built by the mound building
Mississippian culture it was settled around 1000 AD
more than 1,000 people called the village home the mound in the center of
the village
was a ceremonial area and a burial ground the area
is a farm now but more it is archaeology students from Warren Wilson College
have uncovered pipes pottery tools Arrowhead
and other examples a everyday life and that you are a village
the items feel the archaeology lab at the college
in the fines help paint a picture life in the Americas
before Europeans arrived even if you're finding the same things are learning
more about the structure the village
where the houses were with the Spanish men were where they did their cooking
where they where they made pottery with different activities that take place
on on the side researchers had found evidence that Spanish soldiers in the
village
but Spanish documents had also told afford
built by gold seeking Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century
however there was no proof the fort until now
there are are hundreds and hundreds of examples
of Spanish artifacts or traded the Indians
throughout the southeast the glass beads
knives chisels home
but what what this represents here are items
the were almost never and in case nails
bloodshot never traded to the Indians the americans have lived in this area
because there's good feel for farming there was plenty game and there's water
there's a Creek just on the other side of these trees archaeologists have
studied the site for almost three decades trying to learn more about the
people who lived here
but also trying to find evidence that the Spanish because it was known
Spanish soldiers followed Native American trade routes
in the proper forts in the middle with villages it was 1566
Spanish captain Juan Pardo and his men shutout
an inland journey from their settlement Adelanto and the coastal south Carolina
8.6 garrisons during their track part of the Spanish effort to colonize the New
World and search for gold
in what would become the North Carolina foothills
some 300 miles inland pardo built forts and one
in 1567 it was the largest at the Fort
and it preceded England's lost colony at Roanoke Island by twenty years
and Jamestown by forty years the search
is painstakingly slow in layers of soil are removed and sifted
any items if possible interest no matter how small
our catalog for where and when they were found
and then saved for further said Aflac is me
when I'm people were flint knapping
say are working wood to make it into a sharp point
and little flakes from of look like that their share
and the soil itself kills a story
that's another reason the excavation moves so slowly
soil takes time to read and understand pledged
will take it away to reading subsoil
once researchers dig through what is called the POW's own
the depth to which plow disturbs the soil color changes in the soil
explain what happened on the surface a lot of what's important
announces analyzing word what layers
soil go together soon a lot of the structure the mound itself in
the four came from just looking at the colors
the soil these are not natural soil sir different colors come from human
activity
that's mats that's what we're doing we're looking at different soils all the
time
and what we have to do is to determine which have those soils is caused by what
activity
wall that for this was actually build a moat around the fort this is the more
this is the boat right here
dark stains in the soil adjacent to the five foot deep moat
indicate the palisade quickly constructed wall made from cut trees
that surrounded the fort the sides the Ford
is still a mystery you're always finding something to try to figure out
you're seeing interesting artifacts trying to understand what the soils
represent
the Spanish built therefore in the middle if the Native American village
it was a way of asserting their authority over at the village
18 months after the fort was built 25 soldiers
stationed there were dead indians
up cemented formed the relationship since
method those relationships with bombs reciprocation
and the Spanish or giving anything back arm
they weren't here to trade with the Indians they were here to take their
land
arm and wants the book chief here decided that
this was no longer worth his while arm
and he wanted to send a message it was the same problem the same situation all
the villagers
where the forts were arm so they
killed the man myself back one one-man back to Santa Elena
and have him so you know
just this is a and roughly twenty years later
the villager you are a with it 1000 Native American residents
was abandoned nobody knows why
as European colonizers came and seize land
tried to negotiate a new
cultural landscape here the Indians have to do the same
they have to cope with it react to it they weren't
defenseless people there or unsophisticated people
they have to figure out what was going on cope with it was best they could to
this was this was the classic colonial experience