DAACS is thrilled to celebrate the launch of one of our partner sites — Interactive Digital St. Augustine (iDigStAug)! iDigStAug is a new online database dedicated to the archaeology of colonial household sites in St. Augustine, Florida — the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. This project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is the result of a collaboration between the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) and DAACS. The DAACS team worked with FLMNH archaeologists Gifford Waters, Charles Cobb, and their team to reanalyze some 51,000 artifacts from three colonial household lot sites and enter the data into the DAACS database. The data are launched through iDigStAug, which is built on a modified version of the DAACS website infrastructure.
In addition to artifact data, the site includes digitized field records, site maps, and archival photographs that provide critical interpretive context — all freely available to researchers and the public. iDigStAug also builds on a prior DAACS–Florida Museum partnership that produced the Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal (CMAP). We are proud to have been part of this effort and look forward to seeing it grow!
