Life after Retirement – Lending a Helping Hook to the QAR Project
Author(s): Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing
Year: 2018
Summary
Having directed the highly visible and dynamic Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project for fifteen years, it seems that completely cutting ties when I retired wasn’t quite possible. First, came with on-going research and interpretation of the QAR bells with my son’s help. Second was an extension of my ties with marine geologists, who bring to bear ever-improving sonar, positioning, and computer technologies, to view how QAR wreckage is faring on the seabed. More recently, my work with a cultural historian, who specializes in the history of France between the Renaissance and the Revolution, to better understand the impact English pirates, like Blackbeard, had on French shipping. The most consuming and exciting venture in my retirement has been writing The Sunken Prize: Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge with my colleague Linda Carnes-McNaughton. The book targets a popular audience and will be published by University of North Carolina Press for release in 2018.
Cite this Record
Life after Retirement – Lending a Helping Hook to the QAR Project. Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441241)
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Keywords
General
Pirates
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Shipping
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Slave trade
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Eighteenth century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 405