Shipwreck (Other Keyword)
Shipwrecks
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Work on the Monterrey shipwrecks, conducted from the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer and the Ocean Exploration Trust vessel E/V Nautilus, has used some of the most advanced remotely operated vehicles and communication systems ever designed for exploring the deep ocean. Both ships use telepresence as their operational model to enable shore-based scientists to engage in live interdisciplinary scientific exploration over the internet. This not only raises the intellectual capital of the project by...
The Monterrey Shipwrecks: Current Research Findings (2016)
Research on a cluster of shipwrecks known as Monterrey A, B, and C is providing new information on early 19thcentury regional maritime activity in the Gulf of Mexico. The shipwrecks are nearly 200 miles off the U.S. coast, yet rest within a few miles of each other in water over 1,330 meters deep. Although the vessels are quite different from one another, their close proximity and shared artifact types suggest they were traveling in consort when a violent event, likely a storm, led to their...
Montezuma’s Revenge: Re-examining Archeological and Historical Interpretations of a 19th-century shipwreck at Boca Chica Beach, Texas (2018)
On the beach near the Mexican border, the ghostly remains of a shipwreck known as Boca Chica No. 2 periodically emerge after major storm events. This 72-ft. wooden vessel first came to the attention of the Texas Historical Commission in 1999 and has been monitored by the agency since that time. Local folklore has long associated this shipwreck with the Mexican warship Bravo (Montezuma), incidentally the most famous wreck in the area, but archeological evidence from the hull itself suggests...
The Mozambican enslaved in the destination of the Paquete São José: Maranhão, Brazil (1770-1835) (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation is the Brazilian counterpart of trying to understand a specific route of the slave trade between Mozambique and the Brazilian Amazon, a route taken by the São José Paquete d’África. From this experience we can understand part of the diasporic process from Africa and...
Museums and Archaeology: Creating Partnerships to Engage Families and Children (2013)
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis created the "Treasures of the Earth" exhibit to engage children and families in the world of archaeology. Museum staff worked closely with archaeologist advisors to produce recreations of three distinct archaeological "sites", the tomb of Seti I in Egypt, the terra cotta warriors of China, and the underwater remains of an 18th century Caribbean shipwreck. Artifacts and activities in each area convey the sense of discovery that drives archaeology while...
Mythology, Battlefields, Shipwrecks, and Forts: The U.S. Army and the settlement of the Oregon Territory (2015)
United States colonialism in the Oregon Territory was a maelstrom of hostility, ambiguity, and conflicting agendas among Native Americans, Gold miners, pioneer families, citizen militias, Indian agents, and Army personnel. The U.S. Army's role in this drama was particularly ambiguous; many of the pro-states rights pioneers in this pre-Civil War era of the 1850s resented the soldiers—to the point of armed conflict--for defending the treaty rights of Native American people, while the Army was...
Mössbauer and XRD study of Roman amphorae buried in the sea for two millennia (2016)
A decade ago Roman Haltern 70 amphorae were found in the sea near Cortiçais on the Atlantic coast of Portugal. They stem from a shipwreck dated to between 15 BC and 15 AD. We have studied fragments of these amphorae by Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction to look for changes caused by two millennia of exposure to seawater. For comparison we studied Haltern 70 type amphorae excavated on land at Castro do Vieito in the north of Portugal. The sherds show a layer structure with 2 to 3 mm...
NASA Space Program Debris Report: Encountered During Historic Shipwreck Survey and Exploration Cape Canaveral, Florida - Outside 3 Nautical Miles (2014)
Exploration of the area around Cape Canaveral, Florida had always been in the plans and our researchers and historians had already amassed a large list of potential targets in the area. The delays in the DR helped facilitate an accelerated time-line for beginning operations near Cape Canaveral. GME crews began the exploration of the shoals and sand bars in the area early in 2014.
New Developments on the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck Project: Ongoing Investigations of a Vessel from Luna’s 1559 Fleet (2016)
Investigations on the second shipwreck identified as a vessel from Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 1559 fleet have intensified during the past year due to successful funding efforts. The site, known as "Emanuel Point II", is a well-preserved example of ship architecture related to early Spanish colonization efforts. Archaeologists and students from the University of West Florida have focused recent excavations on the vessel’s stern and midships area, and have uncovered new artifacts and...
New Investigations into the Radford Wreck: Interpreting a Candidate for Cape Lookout’s Lost Whaler (2023)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Radford Wreck, CLS0006, is a 3.6 x 1.5 meter portion of ships’ stern located at the mouth of a shallow creek in North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore. Efforts to determine the vessel’s identity suggest the Provincetown, Massachusetts fishing schooner Seychelle a potential candidate. Wrecked on Cape Lookout during its maiden voyage to the Hatteras whaling grounds in 1879,...
"…nothing else of great artifactual value" or "…found nothing on the site at all": What remains of an eighteenth century colonial shipwreck in Biscayne National Park? (2016)
The title of this paper illuminates the short sided approach held by those in search of "treasure" in the 1960s and 1970s in south Florida. It also provides a window into the past and present about how the Pillar Dollar Wreck in Biscayne National Park has been, and continues to be, impacted by adventure seekers, treasure salvors and looters. This paper outlines recent archaeological excavations of the Pillar Dollar Wreck and reveals there is still much to be found and studied in the shifting...
Nuestra Señora de Encarnación: Lost Ship of the 1681 Tierra Firme Fleet (2020)
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. In 1681, the Tierra Firme fleet departed Cartagena for Portbelo to eventually make the voyage back to Spain with goods from the colonies. En route, a storm struck the fleet, wrecking four vessels and killing more than 500 Spanish...
On Perception versus Reality. Clotilda? (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Deductive reasoning and the importance of archaeological investigation to deconstruct and decipher scientific fact from popular belief. The strategy involved with preparing and presenting evidence to document a shipwreck that has been publicly suggested to be something it is not. As early the 1910s, recent history has suggested that the Twelvemile Island...
On the Periphery of the New World: The Beeswax Wreck Project (2015)
This paper reviews the search for the suspected wreck of a Spanish Manila galleon off the Oregon Coast that sank near the end of the seventeenth century. Included are summaries of the 2006-2009 terrestrial surveys and the 2013-2014 diving operations. The sometimes-conflicting historical record is summarized and compared to the results of four terrestrial and two underwater field seasons. The result is an informed estimate of the wreck’s location.
One Ship, Two Ships, Same Ship, New Ship: Investigation and Identification of Ship Structure Associated with Emanuel Point II (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 2012 UWF maritime archaeological field school, a large, complex portion of ship structure was discovered aft of the articulated stern of the 1559 Emanuel Point II shipwreck. Since this time, UWF archaeologists and the author have performed intricate studies of the structure in an attempt to determine its possible association with the Emanuel Point II shipwreck. This paper...
An Overview of 2012-2016 Research Relating to the Russian-American Company Ship NEVA and Potential 1813 Shipwreck Survivor Camp, Alaska (2017)
A 2012 archaeological survey by the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Sitka Historical Society identified a site believed to be the 1813 camp of survivors from the wreck of the Russian-American Company ship NEVA. Support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation allowed for background research and marine remote sensing. In 2015 and 2016, with support from the National Science Foundation (Award...
Overview of Anémone wreck project 2015-2019 (Les Saintes Guadeloupe French West Indies) (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After five years of field work on Anémone wreck site, this paper aims to present a multi years excavation project begun in 2015 and funded by DRASSM (French Ministry of Culture), Guadeloupe Région, DMPA (French Ministry of Army). The wreck is definitively identified as the...
The Oyster Metropolis Of North Carolina: An Archaeological Investigation Of A Pamlico River Shipwreck (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The North Carolina oyster industry greatly expanded in the late 19th century after the introduction of advanced fishing techniques from oyster fishers from the Chesapeake Bay region. As the Chesapeake Bay oyster beds were depleting, oyster fishers flocked to North Carolina to find new fishing areas. Many new ship types and fishing...
Paddlewheels Ahoy! Archaeology of the Oldest Existing Steam Propulsion System (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Phoenix (1814-1819) is the earliest archaeologically-studied steamboat, built just 8 years after America’s first commercially-successful steamer, North River. Phoenix operated for five seasons until it suddenly burned and sank in Lake Champlain, Vermont, in September 1819. In the 2010s, the hull was documented and studied by the...
Picking up the Pieces: Interpretation and reconstruction of USS Westfield from fragmentary Archaeological evidence (2015)
USS Westfield was the flagship of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the American Civil War. Originally a New York ferry, Westfield was purchased by the U.S. Navy in 1861 and converted into an armored gunboat. On January 1, 1863 Westfield was destroyed by her captain during the Battle of Galveston to avoid capture. In 2009, the remaining wreckage, consisting of a disarticulated artifact debris field, was recovered from the Texas City Channel in advance of a dredging project. The remaining...
Pirate Plunder: The Potential for Identifying the Material Culture of Piracy in the Historical Record (2018)
The Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project has been ongoing for over two decades. While ample consideration has been given to potentially identifying those artifacts recovered from the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship that represent a piratical signature, limited attention has been paid to extracting information from the historical record in regards to the material culture plundered by pirates from the prizes that were captured. There is in fact much information revealed in the various letters,...
Pirate Shipwrecks of Port Royal (2013)
History’s most successful pirate, Captain Bartholomew Roberts, was killed by the British Royal Navy in 1722. The three vessels Roberts commanded were taken as prizes and sailed to Port Royal, Jamaica to be sold. However, after being in port for only two weeks, a hurricane struck Jamaica and destroyed more than 50 vessels in the harbor. Roberts’ 40-gun flagship, Royal Fortune, and the 24-gun consort, Little Ranger, were lost. The third pirate vessel, Great Ranger, was heavily damaged and sank...
Pirates As Men Of Measure: Examining Tools And Equipment From The QAR Shipwreck (2018)
In the biblical sense, a "man of measure" is large, even monumental; he is a walking building, or walking sanctuary or human idol. Pirates too could fit this description as their stature is measured in lore and legend. But this paper focuses on the assemblage of specialized tools and equipment found on the sunken ship known as Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s lost flagship. These artifacts, recovered during the past 20 years, reflect an active engagement with measurements of all types and...
Plundering the Spanish Main: Henry Morgan’s Raid on Panama (2016)
Sorting through myth and popular perception in order arrive at truth and historical veracity is one of the most intriguing aspects of historical archaeology. Featured in a variety of media, and, of course, the iconic rum, Henry Morgan lives on in modern popular culture. Yet through the little historical documentation and archaeological evidence that exists, much can be learned about his exploits that led to the creation of his fame and legend. The Spanish Main, or the continental Spanish...
Precontact and Historic Archaeology for the Seabed Remediation of Esquimalt Harbour, Esquimalt, BC. (2016)
Archaeological investigations of the seabed within Esquimalt Harbour and in advance of extensive seabed remediation have revealed archaeological evidence of human activity over millennia. Testing methodologies have included testing between the upper inter-tidal area and the subtidal areas to about 10 m water depth. Evidence of precontact use on landsurfaces that may have been exposed 7,000 years previously have included fragments of basketry. The port has been well known for the last 150...