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Lost in the End of the World - Archaeological Evidence of an 18th Century Shipwreck in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) (2020)
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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. The Purísima Concepción was a Spanish frigate which set sail from Cadiz to Lima in 1764. When sailing along the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego close to reaching Cape Hoorn she suddenly went aground and the crew was unable to save...