Finding 'The First Lost Colony'

A brief article and a lecture announcement about the Berry Site thought to be the Joara of the Soto & Pardo expeditions.

In the News:
Finding 'The First Lost Colony'
Charlotte Observer

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/02/27/2088257/finding-the-first-lost-colony.html

Conquistadors in the Carolinas

Thanks to Sheila for bringing this to my attention

This month's Archaeology magazine - - July/Aug 2009 - - includes the article "Spain's Appalachian Outpost" - 'Conquistadors in the Carolinas' by Marion P. Blackburn- - The Spanish story of the Native American town of Joara (the Berry site, NC)-- visited by De Soto, First and Second Pardo expeditions. There is an abstract of Spain's Appalachian Outpost online .