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The Wreck of HMS Terror (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Harris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site of Canada: 2016-2019 Underwater Archaeological Investigations" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will present a preliminary archaeological examination of the wreck of HMS Terror, discovered in September 2016, in the aptly (but coincidentally) named Terror Bay, along the southwestern shore of King William Island, Nunavut. To date, Parks...

The Wreck Of The 1564 Tierra Firme Galleon Santa Clara: An Overview (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Malcom.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The galleon Santa Clara sailed from Spain to Colombia and Panama in 1564. On the return voyage, the ship ran aground on a remote reef in the northwestern Bahamas. After its passengers and treasure were saved by an accompanying ship,...

The Wreck Of The Galleon San Agustin: A Case Study In Economics, Exploration, And European Development Of The Pacific Rim. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marco Meniketti.

For over two centuries galleons carried treasure and commodities between Asia and Mexico, crossing the Pacific along established routes that took advantage of currents and winds. The voyage was difficult and the hardships endured were extreme. At least four are known to have been lost along the Pacific coast between Washington and Baja California, although none have been recovered archaeologically. In California, just north of the San Francisco Bay, the galleon San Agustin was wrecked at Pt....

The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant: Identification and Affiliation of Captain Kidd’s Lost Ship (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick H Hanselmann. Charles D Beeker.

The shipwreck of the Quedagh Merchant is an archaeological site that brings to life one of the most romanticized activities in modern popular culture: piracy. Little specific evidence of pirates and their actions exists in the archaeological record and, oftentimes, it is difficult to distinguish the identification and function of certain artifacts and features from being piratical or simply commonplace. In fact, finding a site and making the connection to piracy can often be a difficult...

The Wreck of the Slave Ship Peter Mowell: History, Archaeology, & Genealogy (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Malcom. Michael Pateman.

In 1860, the New Orleans-based slaving schooner Peter Mowell wrecked along the shore of Lynyard Cay in The Bahamas, while attempting to carry 400 captive African people to Cuba. Bahamian wreckers rescued the survivors and took them to Nassau: the crew was jailed and released, and the Africans were made indentured servants. After completing their indentures, the shipwrecked Africans blended into Bahamian society but maintained distinctive traditions from their homelands. In 2012, a Bahamian/US...

The Wreck Of The Submarine USS H1 SEAWOLF At Baja California, Mexico (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Junco. Kotaro Yamafune. George Schwarz.

This is an abstract from the "Technology in Terrestrial and Underwater Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2016 an expedition located the wreck fo the Submarine H1 Seawolf in the Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico, after rumors of fishermen extracting brass objects in the area. The wreck is the only known submarine wreck in mexican waters. This submarine from WWI sank in 1920, and work to rescue the wreck at the time failed...

Wreck of the Tracy D: Discovery of an Unidentified Shipwreck on Ossabaw Island (2005)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

Archaeological investigations at the North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island took place during the winter of2005. Several of the archaeology project team members participated in an unrelated discovery of a shipwreck on the South End Point of Ossabaw Island in St. Catherines Sound during that period. This previously unknown and, as yet, unidentified wreck was first discovered by Tracy Dean, who noticed nineteenth century bottle glass and ballast flint on the beach and the wreck site was named in her...

The Wreck of the Warwick: History and final analysis of an early 17th-century Virginia Company ship. (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Bojakowski. Piotr T Bojakowski.

The Warwick which carried the new governor, settlers, their possession, tools, and provisions across the Atlantic to the nascent Bermuda colony in 1619 sank during a hurricane while at anchorage in Castle Harbour. Over the course of four field seasons, a team of archaeologists, students, and volunteers excavated and recorded the Warwick’s hull. The remains of the Warwick are one of the largest and most articulated fragments of an early 17th century English ship. Notwithstanding the historical...

Wreck Sites in the Americas: In Underwater Archaeology: a Nascent Discipline (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mendel L. Peterson.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.

Wrecked! An Interactive Exhibition on a Revolutionary War Shipwreck in St. Augustine, Florida (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenda Swann.

The upcoming exhibition of the Storm Wreck, a Revolutionary War shipwreck in St. Augustine, Florida, is two-fold. As with traditional archaeology exhibits, it will share how historical documents and artifacts from the shipwreck tell the story of British Loyalists who, after evacuating Charleston, South Carolina and leaving behind all they knew and taking with them only what they treasured and needed most, arrived in St. Augustine only to run aground and have many of their precious few items...

Wrecks of the Georgia Coast, Savannah Harbor and Ocmulgee River (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Wood.

Wren Fence Reconstruction (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B. J. Earle.

Wren Timber Sale (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Jones.

Wrese Spring (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William S. Hubbell.

Wright "A" Federal Well #1 For Ralph E. Williamson (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. L. Haskell.

Wright #2 Pipe Line For Kn Energy (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Kyte.

Wright Creek Pueblo Site Arizona Site Steward File (2002)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Wooten.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Wright Creek Pueblo Site, comprised of sherd and lithic scatter as well as a collapsed pueblo, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site map, archaeological site survey worksheet, page of field notes, a blank version of the worksheet, and nine pages of archaeological site surveying technique notes. The earliest dated document is from 2002.

Wright Eng Lily No 1 2 3 Claims (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D. Metcalf.

Wright Eng Phase 1 Ck Placer Group

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uploaded by: system user

Wright Eng Phase 1 Ck Placer Group (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian J. Zier.

Wright Eng Phase 1 Ck Placer Group (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian J. Zier.

Wright Farmstead Western Section, Chittenden County Circumferential Highway Site Evaluation (1999)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Doherty. K. Kenny.

Wright Federal 27 Well #1 Quarry For Wood Petroleum Corporation (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. L. Haskell.

Wright Mounds, Sites 6 and 7, Montgomery County, Kentucky (1940)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William S. Webb.

Wright Patman Lake and Lake O' the Pines, Cass, Camp, Marion, and Morris Counties, Texas: Cultural Resources Survey 1996 (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sue E. Linder-Linsley. Linda D. Lindsay.