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The Lake Champlain sailing canal boat
(2000-08)
The nineteenth century witnessed profound developments in North American inland vessel construction. The story of the steamboat is familiar, but other vessels have not received adequate attention. In particular, canal boats ...
The last of Mr. Brown's Mosquito Fleet : a history and archaeology of the American row galley Allen on Lake Champlain, 1814-1825
(2003-08)
The early nineteenth century witnessed a surge in oared warship production within the U.S. Navy. Shipwrights modified hull and rigging plans in order to develop armed vessels capable of navigating inland waterways under ...
The development and utilization of ship technology in the Roman World in Late Antiquity : third to seventh century AD
(2002-05)
Between the third and seventh centuries AD, ship and boat construction underwent fundamental transformations for both merchant and military activities. The Roman Empire extended over a vast territory and included numerous ...
Commerce and society in the urban Philippines : a comparative study
(2001-05)
Until recently, the negative effects associated with the spread of large retail institutions away from the central business districts of local communities was most commonly identified with towns and cities in the developed ...
Late-pleistocene archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations in the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains of Central Kenya
(2001-05)
Archaeological and geoarchaeological surveys of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains of Kenya are reported. Seventy-one archaeological sites dating from the Middle Stone Age to the present are described. An alluvial ...
No golden age of peace : a bioarchaeological investigation of interpersonal violence on the West Gulf Coastal Plain
(2001-12)
In this study, I evaluate two models explaining the origins and causes of interpersonal violence, using bioarchaeological data from burials derived from twenty-eight prehistoric and historic sites for two regions on the ...
A tangled web : the role of material and ideational definitions of culture in evaluating Coahuiltecan cultural change
(2001)
This thesis is grounded in the concept of Native American cultural change, focusing specifically on the Coahuiltecan peoples, native hunter-gatherers of south Texas and northeastern Mexico. Anthropological literature has ...
Household ceramics at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655-1692 : the building 4/5 assemblage
(2001)
From 1981 to 1990, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), in conjunction with Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, excavated a portion of the underwater English colonial city of Port ...
The Pepper Wreck : a Portuguese Indiaman at the mouth of the Tagus River
(2001-08)
In 1993, during a survey promoted by the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia and the non-profit association Arqueonáutica Centro de Estudos, under the direction of Dr. Francisco Alves, the remains of a ship were found in the ...