Browsing by Author "Castro, Filipe"
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Dollarhide, Kirsten Dianne (2019-11-08)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. ...
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Thomas, Lindsey Hall (2012-10-19)The A.J. Goddard, a steamboat built for the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898, wrecked in 1901 on Lake Laberge, Yukon Territory, where it lay undisturbed until its rediscovery in 2008 by the Yukon River Survey Project, ...
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Gauthier-Berube, Marijo (2022-04-22)If modern shipbuilding calls for engineers, computer software for 3D models and calculations, it represents a recent take on what is needed for ship construction. Until the 19th-century, ship construction in Europe was ...
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Creasman, Pearce Paul (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Excavations conducted in A.D. 1894 and 1895 by French archaeologist Jean- Jacques de Morgan at the funerary complex of the ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senwosret III on the plain of Dahshur revealed some ...
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Lewis, Michael Kenneth (2021-01-21)Virtual reality has created a vast number of solutions for exhibitions and the transfer of knowledge. Space limitations on museum displays and the extensive costs associated with raising and conserving waterlogged ...
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Monroy Cobar, Carlos A. (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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Gongaware, Laura Lynn (2013-12-10)The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage bans the commercial exploitation of underwater cultural heritage. Despite this ban, “commercial exploitation” is not formally defined in the ...
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Franca, Raphael (2017-08-07)Log boats or dugout canoes are the earliest known watercraft in the global archaeological record. In pre-Columbian Florida, dugout canoes were used as early as 6,000 years ago. To date, more than 400 log boats have been ...
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Cartellone, Chris (2015-05-04)In 2010, the discovery of a wreck identified as HMS Solebay off Nevis’ southwest seacoast prompted an investigation by a graduate student from Texas A&M University and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, in collaboration ...
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Stoops, Meredith Alayne (2018-07-17)Historic ceramics are some of the most important artifacts in archaeological studies because of their prevalence and the wealth of information they can provide about a site. However, identifying certain types of historic ...
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Cuellar, Samuel Marshall (2015-04-29)The objective of this thesis is to analyze the visual effectiveness of inexpensive, converted near-infrared digital cameras on a variety of artifacts. Twenty-nine artifacts ranging in condition from unconserved to having ...
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Frizzell, Timothy James (2020-03-25)Lack of research currently limits our understanding factors for preservation of shipwrecks along with the impact of these wrecks on the deep environment. Technology capable of assisting archaeologists in the study of these ...
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Kofahl, Meko (2013-07-29)The major European epidemic of bubonic plague in the sixth century C.E. – named for the ruling Byzantine emperor, Justinian – devastated the empire at the same time that outside pressures in the form of Goths, Vandals, ...
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Akleman, Ergun; Castro, Filipe (2019-06-09)in this article comic, we present the story of excavation & reconstruction of a seventeen-century Portuguese nau, The Nossa Senhora dos Mártires.
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Cohen, Chelsea Marin (2017-07-21)In 1692, the British port of Port Royal, Jamaica was largely lost to the sea after an earthquake shook the city down to the seabed, devastating the town and leaving the coastline of the peninsula permanently changed. Prior ...
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Oswald, Chase William (2021-01-13)This thesis catalogs the Portuguese ships that wrecked while sailing the India Route, the passage between India and Portugal popularized in the 16th and 17th centuries. The focus will be on ships lost along the African ...
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Bishop, Daniel E. (2021-04-15)In 1983, the British sloop Boscawen and two other vessels were discovered in the shallow waters near Fort Ticonderoga, New York. The vessels located at the site are believed to be some of the oldest sailing vessels in Lake ...
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Valenti, Vincent N. (2010-01-14)The subject of shipbuilding in the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages is an integral aspect of the maritime history of this region. Characterized primarily by a fundamental shift in shipbuilding techniques, this phase ...
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Drap, Pierre; Merad, Djamal; Hijazi, Bilal; Gaoua, Lamia; Nawaf, Mohamad Motasem; Saccone, Mauro; Chemisky, Bertrand; Seinturier, Julien; Sourisseau, Jean-Christophe; Gambin, Timmy; Castro, Filipe; Menna, Fabio; Remondino, Fabio; Maas, Hans-Gerd (Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2015)
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Wells, Audrey Elizabeth (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This interdisciplinary research project combines the fields of nautical archaeology and computer visualization to create an interactive virtual reconstruction of the 1606 Portuguese vessel Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, also ...