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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Diane Smeeks.

Countless studies have been conducted in reference to shipboard life.  Historians have often considered the daily diaries, journals, and correspondences of the individuals who partook of this lifestyle.  Meanwhile, archaeologists have considered personal chests of seamen, officers’ cabins, and personal materials scattered across wrecks, but few have considered personal property found with skeletal remains.  The reason for this lack of investigation is the preservation of materials.  Vasa is an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon L. Herrmann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Twenty-first century historical archaeology has numerous paths for studying 16th-century shipwrecks’ archaeological and nautical history. These paths are usually studied through the lens of local context rather than looking at individual artifacts in relation to other global shipwreck sites. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Herrmann.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last thirty years, there has been a wealth of studies on the archaeological and nautical history of sixteenth-century shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay. This poster focuses, however, on the crew and passengers' personal possessions on the ships of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano expedition. Surviving artifacts assisted this analysis in developing a comprehensive study of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon L. Herrmann.

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. Over the last thirty years, there has been much done to study the archaeological and nautical history of sixteenth-century shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay. However, this study will focus not on ship construction in the sixteenth-century,...