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The Search for Vasco da Gama’s Lost Ships - Esmeralda and São Pedro (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Holt.

Two Portuguese ships from Vasco da Gama’s second voyage to India, left behind to disrupt maritime trade through the Red Sea, were wrecked during a storm in 1503 on the coast of Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman. The remains of at least one of the ships was found in 1998 prompting a search for the second ship that was undertaken in 2013 as a collaborative project with Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Culture.  A marine geophysical survey of the area identified a number of targets which were investigated...


Seeding Colonialism; European trade Beads within Native American Contexts (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Goudge.

  The typological and scientific study of trade beads in Native American contexts has contributed a great deal to understanding contact period sites (ca. 1607–1783). The Cape Creek site, NC is a perfect example of British-indigenous connectivity in the contact period and is important for understanding interaction in the Southeast. Unlike other studies of this type that mostly focus on mortuary sites, Cape Creek is a village settlement and will therefore provide a different view of day-to-day...


Seeing beneath the soil. Prospecting methods in archaeology (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only A J Clark.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Seizing Jerusalem: Archaeology, landscape preservation and the ‘Wall’ (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Britt A. Baillie-Warren.

The battle for land(scape) and territorial control is a key element in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the 'struggle for Jerusalem'. This paper focuses on the impact of the ‘Wall’ on the archaeologically rich and environmentally sensitive Refaim Valley—'the bread basket of Jerusalem'. Here environmental and heritage discourses are being used to legitimize the transformation of the valley from a Palestinian agricultural resource to an Israeli ‘Biblical landscape’ conservation area. This...


Sherd movement in the ploughzone - physical data base into computer simulation (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

During the last decade a major research program has been carried out at the Butser Ancient Farm to explore the annual movement of simulated potsherds in the plough soil under a continuous arable regime (Reynolds 1986).The reasons for this program lie in the fundamental question of whether the topsoil overlaying an archaeological site should be regarded as worthy of excavation in that the artefacts it may contain still bear a relationship to underlying features and therefore will have some...


Shipwreck 43 and the formation of the ship graveyard in the central basin at Thonis-Heraclion, Egypt (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Damian J Robinson. David Fabre.

Investigations into the submerged port-city of Thonis-Heraclion by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, under the direction of Franck Goddio, have revealed a complex maritime landscape. Topographic and geoarchaeological research at this site has revealed the shape of the port, the major monumental structures of the city and how it all came to be submerged, as well as the wrecks of sixty-four ancient ships dating from the 8th to the 2nd centuries BC. This paper will investigate a...


Shot at Dawn: Memorialising First World War Executions for Cowardice in the Landscape of the UK's National Memorial Arboretum (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alasdair Brooks.

The National Memorial Arboretum is the United Kingdom's 'national centre of remembrance', which 'commemorates and celebrates those who have given their lives in the service of their country, all who have served and suffered as a result of conflict, and others who, for specific or appropriate reasons, are commemorated here'.  One of the memorials remembers the 306 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed for cowardice and desertion during the First World War, but subsequently...


The skill of the Neolithic bowyers - reassessing the past through experimental archaeology (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S Prior.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


The Slave Wrecks Project Digital Archive: Progress and Prospects (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael C Smith.

The Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) Digital Archive is a multi-level relational database designed to facilitate research on slaver shipwrecks and their context. Its toolset allows researchers to quickly access information on ships, people and places involved in the slave trade. Currently the dataset contains information on over 1,000 slaver wrecks and draws data from a wide variety of sources, including: the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database; Digital Newspaper Archives in Denmark, the Netherlands,...


The sling in medieval Europe (2006)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Harrison. David Wescott.

J. Whittaker: History, accounts of accuracy, good refs.


Social and Economic Responses to Sixteenth-Century Trade in North Atlantic Islands (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark F. Gardiner.

During the sixteenth century Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland and the Gaelic areas of Ireland were drawn into the networks of trade emanating from England and Germany. In each case preserved fish caught in the North Atlantic were exchanged for consumer goods. The response in each of these islands to this emerging trade was different, though we can also identify many common factors. The comparative study of these provide us with a variety of ways in which the economics, politics and government...


Social contract archaeology: a business case for the future (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendon Wilkins. Lisa Westcott Wilkins.

In July 2012, DigVentures will host Europe’s first crowdfunded and crowdsourced excavation at the internationally significant Bronze Age site at Flag Fen (www.digventures.com). Crowdfunding has been successful in creative industries, where ideas that may not fit the pattern required by conventional financiers can achieve traction in the marketplace, supported by what has been called the ‘wisdom of crowds.’ This new approach to funding will be combined with crowdsourcing, inviting the public to...


Social Reactors Project datasets
PROJECT Uploaded by: Scott Ortman

Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project


Some Very Middle Class Indians? Connections between the Croaton Indians of Hatteras Island and the wider 18th century world. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick J G Neville-Jones.

The historical narrative of the Pamlico Sound and Outer Banks of North Carolina reflect their geographical situation at the edge of the North American continent, connected to wider stories but always at the periphery. Although enjoying connections to the story of American ethnogenesis and the Lost Colony at Roanoke Island, the development of powered flight and the Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hills and Blackbeard and the Golden Age of Piracy at Beaufort Inlet, except in the case of projects at...


Spatial archaeology (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D Clarke.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


St. Eustatius--The Nexus for Colonial Caribbean Capitalism (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Grant Gilmore.

As the nexus for international trade in the Atlantic World during the latter 18th and early 19th centuries, St. Eustatius provided the single largest and most efficient conduit for people, news, correspondence and trade items during this time.  The material cultural record in both archaeology and architecture reflect the cosmopolitan society geared toward unfettered capitalism in the first free trading port in modern times.  A mix of nationalities, languages and religions found in few places in...


Standards for the presentation of field data (2007)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Holger Schmidt. James R Mathieu. Rüdiger Kelm. Roeland P Paardekooper. Hana Dohnálková. Karola Müller. Hywel J Keen. Camille Daval. J. Kateřina Dvořáková.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Steel Tracks and Copper Wire: 19th-Century Railway and Telegraphy Equipment from Minas Gerais (Brazil) (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Costa. Guy Hunt. Edward Koole.

In recent years, commercial archaeology (CRM) projects in various parts of the the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) have revealed important evidence relating to stretches of the now abandoned railways and telegraph lines which crossed the interior of Brazil during the second half of the 19th Century. This paper illustrates the evidence from several key sites and examines how it may be used to address ideas of colonialism, globalisation and international trade. These remains are the traces of an...


Stinking foreshore to tree lined avenue: Investigating the riverine lives impacted by the construction of the Thames Embankments in Victorian London. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hanna Steyne.

Victorian London saw dramatic changes along the Thames, with the construction of the East End Docks and Thames Embankments, as the city struggled to cope with its ballooning population and prospering shipping industry. The Embankments reclaimed a stinking, effluent covered foreshore previously occupied by wharves, jetties, barge beds and slips, and contained a new sewer system and covered railways, finished with tree lined avenues and road access to central London. The Embankment has been hailed...


A Strange and Continuing Journey: The Evolution of a Record of Antiquity to a Holistic Public Interpretation of the Historic Environment Facilitated by Technology (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin C Newman.

English Heritage’s National Record of the Historic Environment (NHRE) has gone through many changes since its inception by the former Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME). It incorporated the National Archaeological Record (NAR), the National Buildings Record (NBR) and maritime sites. During this time it has also moved from paper-based records through various database,GISand web developments. This paper considers how much this is just change in technology? To what...


Strange Utensils (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant McCaig.

The geologist Charles Lyell conceptualised, ‘The key to the past is in the present.’ Everyday we are surrounded by a geography of objects that are familiar and yet strange. Familiar in that they are part of our everyday vocabulary and strange in that their origins have become detached from their present forms. We use form as a way of establishing a reality, of marking where we are and our progress.  Using these commonly held perceptions I would like to make a series of objects based around a...


The Stray Finds Project - Recording Lost Artefacts from Plymouth Sound (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Holt.

Divers have been removing objects from the sea since diving was first invented and the advent of SCUBA diving led to an increase in recoveries by private collectors.  Through work on the SHIPS Project in Plymouth, England, sports divers were known to possess items recovered from the sea that had not been recorded,  items that may provide more information about the maritime history of the region.   The aim of the Stray Finds Project is to locate any significant objects in private hands, to record...


The Swash Channel Wreck, Monitoring and Excavations 2007 – 2012. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Parham. paola palma.

The site of the Swash Channel Wreck is that of a large armed merchant ship wrecked in the approached to Poole Harbour on the South Coast of England. The site consists of the almost entire port side of the originating vessels including the bow and stern castles. The site is subject to on going natural erosion that has exposed much of the hull of the vessel since its rediscovery in 2004. The paper will discuss the innovative use of students as part of a taught unit in maritime archaeology to...


Tales From the Front Line: Politics, Teaching, and Museum Collections (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Giovanna Vitelli.

The tensions between stewardship, scholarship and access to collections often play out on a local scale, as contests for funding and resources. Cultivating support and funding for the long-term needs of a museum or repository is a fight for recognition of their value, and takes place in the corridors of power and among people who serve a bigger cause.Aligning with university strategic plans and policies has limited traction unless we do the work and demonstrate how collections are of central...


Tales out of School: the Hidden Curriculum in National Schools in the North of Ireland. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynne McKerr. Eileen Murphy.

Although integrated schooling has an increasingly high profile in the religiously divided society of Northern Ireland, an attempt was made during the 19th and early 20th centuries to provide secular education through the Irish National Schools system. In a survey of a small sample of former schools (n=8) from two case study areas in the north of Ireland, urban schools were found to be considerably larger, allowing for more differentiation in age sets and gender.  In addition, the urban schools...