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Nautical Graffiti of the Chapel of the Casa da Torre, Bahia, Brazil (2020)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The aim of this poster is to discuss about the graffiti of boats and ships engraved and drawn in the chapel of the Castle of Garcia D'Ávila, in Praia do Forte, State of Bahia, Brazil. The Casa da Torre (Tower House), as it is also called the Castle, was built in the XVIth century and served as headquarters for one of the most powerful families in colonial Bahia. It is believed that the...