Browsing by Subject "Nautical Archaeology"
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(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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(2020-08-03)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, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)During the late 19th century, a number of large marble eyes were discovered near the Athenian naval facilities at Zea. Although initially published as the eyes of ancient Greek warships, many scholars have doubted the ...
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(2014-07-28)Eleven boats are depicted in the bas-reliefs that cover the walls of Borobudur, a ninth century C.E. Buddhist monument located in central Java. These vessels are an important source of information about the complexities ...
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(2011-08-08)This dissertation research project focuses on maritime exploration during the Age of Discovery and the vessels that were the technological impetus for this dynamic era that ultimately led Christopher Columbus to the New ...
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(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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(2014-04-17)During the 17th and 18th centuries the Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie (henceforth the VOC or the Company) maintained its presence as a power of trade in Asia by establishing footholds and ...
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(2019-02-28)Steam-propelled vessels transformed North American life in the nineteenth century, but many aspects of the boats still elude us, particularly for the dynamic decades of experimentation and adaptation before 1850. Fortunately, ...
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(2014-06-19)This thesis provides an accurate, comprehensive physical context for the extent underwater archaeological excavations in the Bay of Novy Svet, located on the southeast coast of the Crimean Peninsula. In addition, it presents ...
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(2009-05-15)La Belle’s rigging assemblage has provided a rare and valuable source of knowledge of 17th-century rigging in general and in particular, French and small-ship rigging characteristics. With over 400 individual items including ...
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(2017-05-09)Accurate documentation of cultural heritage material is essential to its study and interpretation by archaeologists. In order to continually refine the documentation process, technological advances are incorporated into ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The purpose of this study was to describe the investigation of the Mica shipwreck. The objectives of the investigation, as identified by nautical archaeologists from the United States Minerals Management Service and the ...
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(2009-05-15)In 1281 C.E., under the rule of Kublai Khan, the Mongols sent a fleet of more than 4000 vessels to subjugate the island nation of Japan. A powerful typhoon, called kamikaze, dashed the invading fleet into pieces on the ...
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(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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(2012-11-15)The Phoenicians were known as artisans, merchants, and seafarers by the 10th century B.C.E. They exchanged raw and finished goods with people in many cultural spheres of the ancient world and accumulated wealth in the ...
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(2017-07-07)In the past two decades, nautical archaeology has turned its attention to identifying and locating the ships used during the Atlantic Slave Trade. While the archival evidence exists, only a small number of these ships has ...
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(2016-12-12)This research is to determine the functionality and applicability of procedural computer-based modeling techniques in the field of nautical archaeology. To demonstrate this approach, an interactive procedural model of the ...
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(2009-05-15)Buy a puzzle, assemble it, and destroy its original box. Take the puzzle, go to a lake, throw the puzzle in the lake, and leave it for a few weeks. Return to the lake and try to rebuild the puzzle from the remaining ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)In the summer of 2000, divers recovered a large shipping crate from the wreck of the Brother Jonathan, a steamboat that sank off of Crescent City, California on 30 July 1865. Ownership of the crate was taken over by the ...
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(2021-10-14)The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed the increasing industrialization of the Great Lakes region and the emergence of the modern Great Lakes transportation system, a system which would ultimately supplant the ...