Early Modern Shipwrecks Database
Author(s): Filipe Castro; Cecilia Smith; Rakesh Kumar
Year: 2018
Summary
In the early 1990s J. Richard Steffy suggested that the body of data on shipbuilding characteristics from archaeological reports was growing and that soon it would be possible to use computers to analyze large sets of data. This paper describes a joint project of the J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory (ShipLAB) and Texas A&M Libraries to develop a database of early modern and modern wooden shipwrecks, and both its analytical possibilities, and the necessity to standardize the recording and publishing of a set of consistent and compatible basic construction features when archaeologists assess, survey, or excavate wooden shipwrecks.
Cite this Record
Early Modern Shipwrecks Database. Filipe Castro, Cecilia Smith, Rakesh Kumar. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441258)
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Keywords
General
Database
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Shipbuilding
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Shipwrecks
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1300-1800
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): 342