IDENTIFICATION OF WOOD SAMPLES FROM CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA, AND FROM DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK AND BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, FLORIDA

Summary

Wood from various shipwrecks off the coasts of California and Florida were

examined to determine types of wood used for the construction of these ships.

Samples from Channel Islands National Park were collected from dry timbers on

Point Bennett and Cluster Point off the coast of California to test the beach

wreck scatters for possible associations with two late-nineteenth century lumber

schooners that were wrecked there. Samples from Dry Tortugas National Park off

the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico were from a variety of sites, all of

unknown cultural affiliation. Samples from Biscayne National Park, south of

Miami, Florida, were from a single site suspected to be that of a mid-eighteenth

century British warship.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

Record Identifiers

PRI Technical Report(s): 94-019

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