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A 16th-Century Spanish-Basque Batel (Ship's Longboat) Excavated at Red Bay, Labrador, Canada. (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Among the more obscure discoveries to have come to light from the extensive Parks Canada underwater excavations conducted at Red Bay, Labrador from 1978 to 1985, are the rare, if not entirely unprecedented remains of a 16th-century Iberian batel (ship's longboat). Attributable to the Spanish-Basque period of commercial whaling...