On Perception versus Reality. Clotilda?
Author(s): Kyle Lent
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Deductive reasoning and the importance of archaeological investigation to deconstruct and decipher scientific fact from popular belief. The strategy involved with preparing and presenting evidence to document a shipwreck that has been publicly suggested to be something it is not. As early the 1910s, recent history has suggested that the Twelvemile Island Wreck (1BA694) may be Clotilda. This paper emphasizes the importance of archaeological investigation and the use of deductive reasoning to provide the public with information showing that a wreck site is not always what it was originally suggested to be. The paper explores the often-sensitive role that archaeology can play into documenting a site that popular perception wants it to be versus what it actually is.
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On Perception versus Reality. Clotilda?. Kyle Lent. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449111)
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Keywords
General
Maritime Landscape
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Shipwreck
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slave ship
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th - 20th 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): 334