Fifteen years downstream’ ...Reflections on the HMS Swift Archaeological Project (Argentina)

Summary

HMS Swift was a British sloop of war that sank in 1770 off the coast of what later became Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. In 1997 the underwater archaeology team of the National Institute of Anthropology took charge of the research of the site, conducting various surveying and excavation seasons in the following years. By 2011 significant progress had been achieved on various research strands of the project and a comprehensive report was published. This presentation will address several issues related to the impact of the HMS Swift project in the development of the specialty of maritime archaeology in Argentina and the region of South America.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2014   •
• Lessons That Count: What We Have Learned From Large, Multi-Year Underwater Excavations

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): SYM-2,08