"Building Fort San Juan de Joara at the Berry Site (1566-1568)." About 450 years ago, Spanish soldiers on an expedition from Florida took over the native Catawba town of Joara, about 60 miles east of ...

Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire Book Description: Built in 1566 by Spanish conquistador Juan Pardo, Fort San Juan is the ...

Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan -- Introduction / Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and Christopher B. Rodning -- Who they were: situating the colonial encounter -- Joara in time and space / Robin A.

An archaeology team digging in Western North Carolina uncovered a mysterious object and grew curious, news outlets report. The piece of metal was sticking up from the ground near a house at the ...

Before there was Jamestown and even before there was Roanoke, there was Spain's Fort San Juan, in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the fort ...