NMOAS News:

James Bruseth, author of From a Watery Grave, the Discovery & Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle, presents details of 22-year-long analysis and conservation of the recovered 1.8 million artifacts—representing an explorer’s “kit” for building a colony in the seventeenth-century New World

In 1686, the ill-fated La Salle expedition found itself stranded on a Texas beach. What followed was years of desperation, starvation, and the murder of La Salle by his own crew.

Two of those crew members, Jean L’Archeveque and Jacques Grollet, settled in New Mexico under the names Juan Archibeque and Sanitago Gurule after taking part in the resettlement of New Mexico following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

Bruseth’s presentations will begin at 12 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, at New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies—bring your lunch.