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Blockade Runner "Modern Greece" and Her Cargo (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie S. Bright.

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Investigations of the Beeswax Cargo of the 1576 San Felipe Manila Galleon. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura G. White. Staci D. Willis.

This paper presents the results of the investigation of the pollen inclusions from the beeswax cargo of the Manila galleon San Felipe wreck site of 1576. Though pollen has not previously been sucessfully extracted from rendered wax, through the application of a careful sampling process, paleoethnobotanical analysis has not only proved possible, but has yielded sufficiently well-preserved pollen to provide potential information concerning the environments where the wax was collected or rendered,...


Metal Objects Were Much Desired. A 16th Century Shipwreck Cargo off Esposende (Portugal) (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Almeida. Tania Manuel Casimiro. Ivone Magalhães. Filipe Castro. Alexandre Monteiro. Adolfo Martins. Maria Santos.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the winter of 2014 the Belinho beach (Esposende, Portugal) was surprisingly filled with wooden parts belonging to a ship, stone shots and metals objects. Everytime the sea was rough new objects would appear on the beach suggesting that a ship was wrecked close to the shore. The confirmation came in 2017 when the shipwreck site was found. Hundreds of objects have been found...


Mixed Cargos of Glass and Stone Beads of the Indian Ocean World Early Modern Period (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Craig.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Most literature on beads in the IOW is from very early archaeological sites in South Asia dated to the BCE era. The Indian Ocean World (IOW) encompasses the overarching geographical boundaries of East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. What does the literature indicate for the distribution of...