Browsing by Subject "shipwreck"
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A survey conducted in February of 1998 located an anomaly originally believed to be the remains of L'Aimable. L'Aimable was one of four ships utilized by Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, for his voyage to colonize ...
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(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 ...
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(2019-01-04)ABSTRACT This research involves the conservation, historical and archaeological analysis of a cache of swords recovered from the 17th-century French shipwreck La Belle. The central premise of my research model is ...
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(2017-06-28)This dissertation chronicles the historical record of the attempt to recover treasure from buried western river steamboats in the United States by examining the site formation of steamboat wreck sites, treasure myths, ...
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(, 2012-08-29)The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered in 1982 when a Turkish sponge diver informed the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) of his discovery of metal biscuits with ears. INA archaeologists recognized this as a description ...
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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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(2009-05-15)A late antique shipwreck was excavated in the Pantano Longarini marsh in the southeastern corner of Sicily in the 1960s. Despite its excellent preservation, problematic circumstances surrounding its excavation and publication ...
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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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Over the course of the school year, we intend to create a short film centered around the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. Up until this point, there has been thorough research in the conditions surrounding the sinking ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Shipwrecks have a way of catching the imagination of both professionals and the general public. During the fall of 2004 a shipwreck was discovered in Delaware Bay near Lewes, Delaware. This vessel, believed to be British, ...
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(2019-11-08)In 2015, the wreck of the CityPlace schooner was discovered in downtown Toronto. The remains were excavated by Archaeological Services, Inc. and relocated to the Fort York National Historic Site, also in downtown Toronto. ...
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The History of H-Class Submarines and Archaeology of the Submarine USS H-1 (Ex Seawolf) (1913-1920) (2021-08-18)The 1864 sinking of the USS Housatonic by the Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley, during America’s Civil War, accelerated the race to develop a mechanically powered submarine capable of sinking enemy shipping. The ...
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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 ...