Browsing by Subject "Portugal"

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    • 16th Century Cast-Bronze Ordnance at the Museu de Angra do Heroismo 
      Hoskins, Sara Grace (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      Within the collections of the Museu de Angra do Heroismo (Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal) are nine cast bronze guns from the 16th century. Most were raised from the seafloor between the 1960s and 1990s, but this study ...
    • Extracting Cultural Information from Ship Timber 
      Creasman, Pearce (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 ...