Browsing by Subject "nautical archaeology"
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(2013-05-01)Since 2004, the Istanbul Archaeological Museums have conducted salvage archaeological excavations at the construction site of an underground railway station at Yenikapı in Istanbul, Turkey. These excavations have unearthed ...
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(2022-11-17)Situated in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV), Brazos Santiago was the deepest natural deep-water port for southernmost Texas and northernmost Mexico for over one hundred- and fifty-years. Due to its depth and position, ...
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(2011-10-21)Throughout the ages, countless shipwrecks have left behind a rich historical and technological legacy. In this context, nautical archaeologists study the remains of these boats and ships and the cultures that created and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Past research on eighteenth-century ships has primarily taken one of two avenues, either focusing on naval warship construction or examining the merchant shipping industry as a whole in terms of trends and economics. While ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation is rooted in one general question: what can the wood from ships reveal about the people and cultures who built them? Shipwrecks are only the last chapter of a complex story, and while the last fifty ...
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(2016-12-08)This study is a selective compendium of measurements and features relating to framing from Mediterranean shipwrecks dating from the 5th century B.C.E. through the 9th century C.E., with the goal of better understanding the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)In 1997 a group of archaeologists from Texas A&M University's Nautical Archaeology Program traveled to Wasaga Beach, Ontario to document the hull remains of the eighteenth-century schooner Nancy. In 1927, the schooner was ...
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(2009-05-15)An array of ship types was used during the European Age of Expansion (early 15th to early 17th centuries), but one vessel in particular emerges from the historical records as a harbinger of discovery: the caravel. The ...
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(2012-11-13)At least 64 shipwrecked stone transports have been discovered throughout the Mediterranean region dating primarily to the Roman period. Few have been excavated and even fewer have had more than scant hull remains recovered. ...
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(2017-04-05)The 2005-2011 excavation by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) of the late Hellenistic “column wreck” at Kızılburun, Turkey recovered ceramic artifacts clearly postdating the wreck by a number of centuries. The ...
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(, 2012-08-29)The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered in 1982 when a Turkish sponge diver informed the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) of his discovery of metal biscuits with ears. INA archaeologists recognized this as a description ...
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(2021-12-13)Tuna fishing has been a staple in the Sicilian economy from ancient times into the 20th century. Southern Sicily especially benefitted from the prosperity of the industry and built infrastructure known as tonnare for tuna ...
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The Passenger Steamboat Phoenix: An Archaeological Study of Early Steam Propulsion in North America (2012-08-31)The advent of steam contributed heavily to the economic transformation of early America, facilitating trade through the transportation of goods along the country’s lakes, rivers, and canals. Serious experimentation with ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Nautical archaeology has made remarkable advances since its inception half a century ago, but one area in need of more attention is the examination of cultural aspects of seafaring. This dissertation advances understanding ...
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(2015-08-06)Steamboats became commercially viable in the early nineteenth century, and by the 1830s were arguably the most popular form of long-distance travel around North America, especially on inland waterways like Lake Champlain. ...
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(2019-11-08)In 2015, the wreck of the CityPlace schooner was discovered in downtown Toronto. The remains were excavated by Archaeological Services, Inc. and relocated to the Fort York National Historic Site, also in downtown Toronto. ...
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The History of H-Class Submarines and Archaeology of the Submarine USS H-1 (Ex Seawolf) (1913-1920) (2021-08-18)The 1864 sinking of the USS Housatonic by the Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley, during America’s Civil War, accelerated the race to develop a mechanically powered submarine capable of sinking enemy shipping. The ...
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(2016-03-10)In 2010, a new off-the-shelf software for Computer Vision Photogrammetry, Agisoft PhotoScan, became available to nautical archeologists, and this technology has since become a popular method for recording underwater shipwreck ...