Archaeology of 17th Century Iberian Shipwrecks: Assessment and Comparison of Excavated,Recorded and Published Hull Remains
Author(s): Ricardo Borrero Londoño
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Current Research and On Going Projects at the J Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The 17th century Iberian naval heritage has suffered a devastating reality. Out of 55 wrecks around the world that have been identified as Iberian, 37 have either been destroyed, looted, or salvaged by treasure hunters, and just 11 have been the subject of archaeological work. Only the San Diego, the Green Cabin wreck, the Fuxa wreck, the Nossa Senhora dos Martires and the Santo Antonio de Tana have been published. The structural components, planking, fastenings, caulking and other hull remains have been preserved and reported to different degrees of detail. This paper establishes comparisons within this small sample of hull components, aiming to make visible the existence of shared traits or, even, the distinctive Iberian shipbuilding tradition proposed by Oertling (2001, 2005) and Castro (2008).
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Archaeology of 17th Century Iberian Shipwrecks: Assessment and Comparison of Excavated,Recorded and Published Hull Remains. Ricardo Borrero Londoño. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 448979)
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Keywords
General
17th century
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Fuxa Wreck
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Green Cabin Wreck
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Iberian
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Nossa Senhora dos Martires
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San Diego
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Santo Antonio de Tana
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shared traits
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shipbuilding tradition
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Shipwrecks
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
17th 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): 140