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Following the recent discovery and identification of the wreck site of two Portuguese naus from Vasco da Gama’s second voyage to India lost in 1503 off the coast of Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman, a series of scientific analyses were conducted to better understand the origin, manufacture and use of certain types of the recovered artefacts. The artefacts studied include stone shot, composite lead/iron shot, breech powder chambers, coins and a rare copper-alloy disc that has the appearance of an...
Identifying a Luso-African Slaver in Cape Town: An Overview of the Archaeological and Archival Evidence for the São Josè Paquete d’Afrique (2016)
In December of 1794 the São Josè Paquete d’Afrique foundered off of Capetown while transporting nearly five hundred slaves from Mozambique who were destined for northeastern Brazil, resulting in the death of over two hundred souls. This presentation reports on how ongoing archaeological work on site combined with archival work in Africa, Europe, and South America have enabled identification of the shipwreck. It reflects on some of the insights research about this event is providing about the...
Portuguese finds in Velha Goa (2013)
As the former capital of the Estado da Índia, the Portuguese influence on Goa is evident throughout the region—in its architecture, cuisine, music, religious practices, etc. In Velha Goa (or Old Goa), perhaps the most striking example of this influence is the well-preserved Catholic churches that dominate the landscape. However, beyond the few excavations in Velha Goa that centered on these churches, there is a limited archaeological understanding of material culture outside of ecclesiastical...
Portuguese Introduced Firearms Amongst The Societies Of The Lower Zambezi From The Early Seventeenth To Late Nineteenth Centuries (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the introduction of firearms into the lower Zambezi by the Portuguese produced both transient and lasting impacts for this area of central Mozambique. These European weapons were often, though not always, eagerly adopted by local communities where they...
Shore Whaling along California’s Central Coast (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, archaeologists from California State Parks and University of California, Berkeley conducted fieldwork to document the submerged and terrestrial archaeological remains of the shore whaling industry and other maritime related industries along the San Mateo/Santa Cruz coast during the mid- to late- 19th century. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 came at a time when...
Zanzibar Before the Transnational Storm: Considerations of the Uneven Stops and Starts of the Colonial Project (2018)
Much recent scholarship has addressed the uneven nature of the colonial project. Metropoles are no longer theorized as monolithic fonts of culture or centers of political power. Likewise, the dynamism and influence of peripheries are topics enjoying intense archaeological investigation. This paper builds on such scholarship by exploring the fits and starts as well as the failures associated with early colonialism. In so doing it provides a stark contrast between the tenuousness of early...