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)

Keywords

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