 | St. Catherines: An Island in Time Subjects: Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (Saint Catherines Island Ga.) -- History; Guale Indians -- Missions -- Georgia -- Saint Catherines Island -- History; Missions Spanish -- Georgia -- Saint Catherines Island -- History; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Georgia; 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. DAVID HURST THOMAS is the curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. In addition to his discoveries on St. Catherines, he has completed major excavations at Gatecliff Shelter in Nevada and of a Spanish mission south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
