Gaspé Maritime Archaeology Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Gaspé, located in Québec, Canada, has been a hub of maritime culture in North America for centuries, and continues to be an important commercial fishing port today. Historically, Gaspé has been home to indigenous fishermen, Basque whalers, and robust French and British cod fishing communities, each with their own unique shipbuilding heritage. In the summer of 2019, researchers initiated a long-term study of the maritime history of the region, starting with a survey of Gaspé Bay for shipwrecks and other submerged cultural heritage. After a pandemic-caused hiatus, research resumed in the summer of 2022 including more extensive surveying of both Gaspé Bay and Malbay and documentation of a wreck located in the tidal zone of the Gulf of the St. Lawrence River at Cap-des-Rosiers. This paper discusses the results of the 2022 field season, including details of the ship construction of the Cap-des-Rosiers wreck and the remote-sensing findings.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
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