The Beeswax Wreck Project: The First 10 Years.
Author(s): Scott S Williams
Year: 2017
Summary
The Beeswax Wreck Project is an all-volunteer, non-profit effort to identify and locate a proto-historic wreck locally known as the Beeswax Wreck of Nehalem, Oregon, USA. The results of the ten-year effort by a multi-disciplinary team are reported, including the identification of the vessel as the Manila galleon 'Santo Cristo de Burgos', lost in 1693. Remote sensing and dive survey efforts to locate hull deposits that could confirm the identity of the vessel will be discussed. Despite the lack of an identifiable wreck site, the identification of the Beeswax Wreck as the remains of the 'Santo Cristo de Burgos' is based on archaeological, archival, and geomorphological evidence.
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The Beeswax Wreck Project: The First 10 Years.. Scott S Williams. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435314)
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Keywords
General
galleon
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Manila
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Shipwreck
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
17th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 150