Manila Galleon (Other Keyword)
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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. Acapulco was one of two main gateways to New Spain, forming part of a complex interaction and network with Asia. Acapulco witnessed events of regional, national and even global importance. The Maritime Archeology Project of the Port of...
The Salvage Of The Manila Galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción: Archaeology Or Treasure Hunting? (2019)
This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Salvage companies may use the guise of archaeology to excavate shipwrecks for their own profits but may not abide by archaeological methods or ethical principles. One shipwreck that was salvaged by companies was the Manila galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which wrecked in 1638 off the coast of Saipan in the Commonwealth of...
The Stoneware from the Baja California Manila Galleon (2017)
Stoneware has long been held by archaeologists as a problematic artifact category. Stoneware is troublesome to date with any precision, difficult to source, and decidedly less flashy than even the most pedestrian porcelains. However, a study of the stonewares from the Manila galleon wreck site Baja California, in the form of sherds from large utilitarian storage jars, is an opportunity for gaining additional knowledge about the contents of a ship that, in the late sixteenth century, was in the...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong… Small Craft in Search of a Manila Galleon (2017)
The Baja California Manila Galleon shipwreck site location was established from analysis of onshore artifact distribution. Increasing attempts have been made to investigate the offshore source of this material by utilizing magnetometry and the excavation of detected anomalies. The magnetometer surveys went well and buried iron associated with the wreck site were buoyed and mapped. However, investigation of the buried anomalies proved to be more difficult than anticipated, as they were found...
"What happens in the Embocadero, stays in the Embocadero": An Archaeological interpretation of the early Spanish exploration of the Pacific and the establishment of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade. (2017)
This paper lays out the the current archaeological findings of the Manila-Acapulco Trade route, and analyzes the navigation pattern as they travel from Manila, through the embocadero then travelling the northern trade winds over to North America. The route can take 4-6 months, and takes a heavy toll on the crew and their passengers. almost one third of this time is taken to traverse the Embocadero, a water route weaving through the middle of the Phillipine Islands. Knowing there were other...