Coronado: The New Evidence on SBS Viceland – Coronado: The New Evidence explores one of the longest-standing archaeological mysteries in the United States: the land route taken by famed explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, who from 1540-1542 was attempting to find vast wealth and fame while traveling north from Mexico.
Through the intrepid and tireless work of Arizona-based archaeologist Dr. Deni Seymour, we now know where Coronado’s expedition first crossed into what would later become the continental United States. With exclusive access to the Coronado archaeological site, watch Dr Seymour unearth hundreds of artifacts including a breathtaking 15th-century “wall gun”; the earliest firearm found in the continental United States.
This discovery has dire, catastrophic far-reaching implications—not only for the US and world history—but for the indigenous peoples the Sobaipuri, and their descendants, the Wak O’odham, who first encountered Coronado.
Coronado: The New Evidence on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Sunday 17 March at 8.30pm
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