Slave Wrecks Project (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 2020 archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of lead- as both musket balls and lead caulking. This paper discusses elemental composition, isotopic ratios, and other scientific properties of the lead samples. Implications for ore sources and the ship's...
The Archeological and Historical Evidence for the Wreck of L'Aurore- Summary and Implications (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper summarizes the session, highlighting evidence, drawing implications and proposing directions for future research on the IDNM-013 shipwreck site in Mozambique.
How These Pots Can Talk: Relevancy and Purpose of Archaeology in the Slave Wrecks Project. (2018)
Underneath the well-manicured landscape of Christiansted National Historic Site stood the center of Danish Caribbean commerce, the Danish West India and Guinea Company Warehouse. Through these doors flowed the lifeblood of the Danish colonial experience – sugar and slave. Since 2015, the National Park Service, as partners in the Slave Wrecks Project, has been conducting a community archaeological program that introduces archaeology and heritage management to local students. The goal of this...
The NPS Search for Guerrero: Exploration and Partnerships (2018)
The search for Guerrero brings to life a powerful story of human greed, sacrifice, courage, and loss. The effort to locate this shipwreck is supported within the larger framework of the NPS’s five-year Civil Rights Initiative for advancing the management and interpretation of site andstories from within national parks associated with the civil rights movement, African American history, and the African American experience in the United States. It also represents the involvement of the National...
The Petrology and Geochemistry of Ballast Stones- Evidence of Voyaging and Identity (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper discusses novel techniques of geochemical analysis applied to ballast stones from the Ile de Mozambique Shipwreck (IDM-013) by Dr. Richard Palin of the Department of Geochemistry at Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences. Techniques, and implications for the presumed...
Wood Analysis from the IDM-013 Shipwreck (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020 a tam of archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of wood from the !DM-013 shipwreck in Mozambique. This paper discusses scientific results and implications for possible origin and identity of the shipwreck. Implications for future research will also be...