Browsing by Subject "maritime archaeology"
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(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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(2017-04-05)The 2005-2011 excavation by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) of the late Hellenistic “column wreck” at Kızılburun, Turkey recovered ceramic artifacts clearly postdating the wreck by a number of centuries. The ...
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The Passenger Steamboat Phoenix: An Archaeological Study of Early Steam Propulsion in North America (2012-08-31)The advent of steam contributed heavily to the economic transformation of early America, facilitating trade through the transportation of goods along the country’s lakes, rivers, and canals. Serious experimentation with ...
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(2019-05-22)The town of Alexandria, Virginia sits along the Potomac River in the northeast region of the United States. Established in 1749, Alexandria has a rich history spanning over 250 years, and during the late 18th and early ...
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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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(2016-03-10)In 2010, a new off-the-shelf software for Computer Vision Photogrammetry, Agisoft PhotoScan, became available to nautical archeologists, and this technology has since become a popular method for recording underwater shipwreck ...