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Less Heroic, More Human: Archeology Of Nineteenth-century Whalers And Sealers In The South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Multiple documents demonstrate the strong impact of human activities since at least the first decades of the 19th century in waters near the South Shetland Islands. These activities generated a specific material culture directly linked to fishing, hunting, and survival strategies that are still preserved. In...