Researchers in northern  believe they've uncovered the remains of a long lost Native American settlement last reported on in the 16th century.
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Sarabay was mentioned by both French and Spanish colonists in the 1560s, but it's been considered a 'lost city' until now.
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Excavating the southern end of Big Talbot Island off the coast of Jacksonville, archaeologists uncovered both Indigenous and Spanish pottery and  [[http://www.caravax.com/tranh-go-dong-que-dep-nhat-tranh-go-phong-canh/ Cách trang trí tranh gỗ phòng khách. Kinh nghiệm mua tranh gỗ]] other artifacts dating to the late 16th or early 17th century that match cartographic evidence of the Mocama people in the area.
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They hope to confirm the discovery of Sarabay over the next few years by finding evidence of houses and public architecture.
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	  image class="left" url=""   Archaelogists in northern Florida believe they've found evidence of the 'lost' Mocama city of Sarabay, first encountered by Europeans in 1562
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The style and amount of Native pottery found on the island is consistent with Mocama culture, according to researchers from the University of Northern Florida.
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A team led by [[https://www.purevolume.com/?s=UNF%20Archaeology UNF Archaeology]] Lab director Keith Ashley also found over 50 pieces of Spanish pottery that would align with colonists' encounters with the tribe—as well as bone,  [[http://holyapostleshoover.org/2017/02/28/the-voice-winter-2017-edition/ Cách trang trí tranh gỗ phòng khách. Kinh nghiệm mua tranh gỗ]] stone and shell artifacts, and  Tranh gỗ đồng quê đẹp nhất charred corn cob fragments.
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   RELATED ARTICLES                Share this article Share   'No doubt we have a 16th-century Mocama community,' Ashley told the .
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'This is not just some little camp area. This is a major settlement, a major community.'
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The Mocama, who lived along the coast of northern Florida and southwest Georgia, were among the first indigenous populations encountered by Europeans when they arrived in 1562, nearly a half century before the founding of the Jamestown colony.
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	  image class="left" url=""   The style and amount of Native pottery found on the island is consistent with Mocama culture, archaeologists say
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	  image class="left" url=""   A 16th century painting by Jacques le Moyne depicting Huguenot explorer Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (far right) with a Timucuan leader.
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The Mocama-speaking Timucua were among the first indigenous populations encountered by European explorers in the 1560s
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They were long lumped in with the larger Timucua people, an Indigenous network with a population of between 200,000 and 300,000 split among 35 chiefdoms, according to the .
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But Ashley maintains they were a distinct sub-group that lived on the barrier islands from south of the St. Johns River to St.
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Simons Island.
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They didn't call themselves the Mocama—their endonym is actually unknown: the name was derived from the language they spoke.
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It translates loosely to 'of the sea,' fitting for a group that lived by the mouth of the St. Johns River and subsisted mostly on oysters and fish.
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'The Mocama were people of the water, be it the Intracoastal or  Tranh gỗ treo tường TPHCM the Atlantic,' UNF anthropologist Robert Thunen told the