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dc.creatorLessmann, Anne Wood
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07T22:49:29Z
dc.date.available2012-06-07T22:49:29Z
dc.date.created1997
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1997-THESIS-L442
dc.descriptionDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item.en
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references: p. 95-102.en
dc.descriptionIssued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.en
dc.description.abstractDiscovered in 1966 off the north coast of the Dominican Republic, the Monte Cristi shipwreck represents the remains of an English-built ship carrying a Dutch cargo that sank in Spanish waters during the mid-17th century. Despite heavy salvage of the site by sport divers and treasure hunters, significant features of the ship's construction and a substantial sample of the ship's cargo have survived. This cargo was predominantly composed of several types of clay tobacco smoking pipes, although other diagnostic artifacts such as ceramics, trade goods, and luxury imports have also been preserved. One artifact which has appeared consistently throughout the excavation of the wreck is a ceramic known as Rhenish stoneware, especially a type called Bartinannkrfige which was produced and exported from the town of Frechen, near Cologne, during the 16th and 17th centuries. No complete stoneware vessels have yet been found at Monte Cristi, but the mottled-brown salt-glazed fragments are characterized by applied Baruwnn faces and body medallions typical of Rhenish stoneware from other 17th-centur-y sites. Analyses of other artifacts from the Monte Crist shipwreck have placed the date of the wreck between 1652 and 1656 and the likely destination of the ship to have been the northeastern seaboard of North America. In testing these theories through a study of the Monte Cristi Rhenish stoneware, it has become apparent that the assemblage probably dates to the 1650s or earlier and has parallels at several sites in North America and on shipwreck, sites around the world. More valuable from an interpretive point of view is the actual size of the Stoneware assemblage, which suggests that the Rhenish stoneware was a major element of the ship is cargo. Since the Dutch were the Primary transporters of Bartmannkrfige in the 17th century, the stoneware'S presence here is a strong indication that the ship was under Dutch ownership at the time it sank.en
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.rightsThis thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use.en
dc.subjectanthropology.en
dc.subjectMajor anthropology.en
dc.titleThe Rhenish stoneware from the Monte Cristi shipwreck, Dominican Republicen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineanthropologyen
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
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