The French Revolution had begun in 1789 and by 1793 Britain and France were engaged in war. Hostilities extended to their world-wide possessions, and to the high seas where each nation strived to capture the other's naval ...

Salona (near present-day Split, Croatia), originally an Illyrian city with Greek presence along the eastern Adriatic coast, was conquered by Republican Rome in 76 BCE. Based on its central location in Roman Dalmatia, coupled ...

On July 30, 1865, the steamship Brother Jonathan sank off the coast near Crescent City, California. Although a well-known tragedy at the time, its exact location was unknown until the 1990s when Deep Sea Research, Inc. ...

This dissertation provides a preliminary report on the discovery of a Third Dynasty boat-burial from Abusir South (ca. 2544 BCE), and reevaluates a corpus of 70 Egyptian boats and boat-burials from the third millennium, ...

This thesis reconstructs the royal Acropolis at Babylon and selected adjacent areas as they likely appeared during the late 6th century B.C. Today, all that remains of Babylon is scant archaeological ruins of building ...

The expansion of human cognition is a major question in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution, primarily the Foraging Brain and the Social Brain Hypotheses. Thus far, the ...

This study considers the market of potatoes in Amazonas, Peru from an informal production sector to a more formal retail-marketing sector. I consider and challenge current understandings that attempt to model formal/informal ...

The thesis presents the results of a study of 1005 graffiti on 13th century Byzantine amphorae from a shipwreck in the Bay of Sudak near Novy Svet, Crimea, Ukraine. The primary goals of this thesis are 1) to provide an ...

People in developing countries have nutritional deficiencies for many reasons. These reasons may be and often are complex and difficult to label. Still, they can be put into perspective by studies that compare various ...

In February of 2008, two 18-pounder carronades were discovered off the Oregon coast near Arch Cape in Clatsop County. In addition to the carronades, several associated artifacts were collected from the site, including ...