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1 online resource (76 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- The Uniquely Problematic Shipwrecks of the Equally Problematic 'Age of Discovery' -- 1.1. Historical Background -- 1.2. Emergent oceangoing ship types -- 1.2.1. Galleon -- 1.2.2. Nao, nau, carrack -- 1.2.3. Caravel -- 1.3. What it means to be 'Iberian' -- 1.4. Treasure and archaeology -- Chapter 2 |
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Figure 1. Map of main North Atlantic ocean currents, corresponding with trade winds and Iberian trans-Atlantic sailing routes from the late 15th century. Map prepared by María José García Rodríguez with data from Ana Crespo Solana, © ForSEAdiscovery Proj -- Figure 2. Distribution map of known sixteenth to eighteenth-century Iberian shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific coast of the Americas. Of these, 698 are known from historical records and 216 from archaeological investigations. The western Pac |
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Figure 3. Supposed shipwreck timber from a galleon of the 1986 Spanish armada that appeared on the online auction site Ebay in 2015 after having washed up on the Scottish coast as flotsam. -- Timber Samples and Dendroprovenance -- 2.1. Scientific analyses -- 2.1.1. Dendrochronology -- 2.1.2. Dendroarchaeology -- 2.1.3. DNA -- 2.1.4. Geochemistry -- 2.1.5. Anatomical and structural markers -- Chapter 3 -- Figure 4. Examples of research questions that could form the basis for interrogating a wooden shipwreck site through a systematic timber sampling campaign. |
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Figure 5. Table with descriptions of analytical dendroprovenance methods and what each requires from a wood sample. -- Figure 6. Examples of questions to consider when developing an underwater timber sampling strategy. -- Sampling and Sub-sampling -- 3.1. Selection -- 3.1.1. Assemblage and preservation -- 3.1.2. Sampling underwater -- 3.1.3. Sampling on land -- 3.2. Post-excavation processing -- 3.2.1. Cleaning -- 3.2.2. Visual recording -- 3.2.3. Text-based description -- 3.2.4. Storage -- 3.2.5. Database management -- 3.3. Sub-sampling -- 3.3.1. Dendrochronology -- 3.3.2. Dendroarchaeology |
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3.3.1. DNA -- 3.3.4. Geochemistry -- 3.3.5. Anatomical and structural markers -- 3.3.6. Radiocarbon (14C) -- Chapter 4 -- Figure 7. Slivers of transverse sections of pine (Pinus sp. -- left) and deciduous oak (Quercus subg. quercus -- right), demonstrating the visible differentiating features: color, sharper distinctions between annual growth rings in pine, porous earlywood in o -- Figure 8. Schematic diagram of the transverse section of deciduous oak. Diagram © Sara Rich, 2017. -- Figure 9. Schematic diagram of the transverse section of a coniferous wood. Diagram © Sara Rich, 2017. |
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Figure 10. Schematic diagram of the radial conversion of deciduous oak. Diagram © Sara Rich, 2017. |
| Summary |
This book presents a set of protocols to establish the need for wood samples from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists in the removal of samples for a suite of archaeometric techniques currently available to provenance the timbers used to construct wooden ships and boats. Case studies presented use Iberian ships of the 16th to 18th centuries. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Shipwrecks.
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Shipwrecks. |
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Underwater archaeology.
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Underwater archaeology. |
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Nayling, Nigel.
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Momber, Garry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rich, Sara A. Shipwrecks and Provenance: in-Situ Timber Sampling Protocols with a Focus on Wrecks of the Iberian Shipbuilding Tradition Oxford : Archaeopress,c2018 |
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1784917184 |
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9781784917180 (electronic book) |
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