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Author Von der Porten, Edward P., author.

Title Ghost galleon : the discovery and archaeology of the San Juanillo on the shores of Baja California / Edward P. Von der Porten.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019]

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.
Contents Discovery -- Dreams of Asian riches -- The first expedition -- Understanding the ship -- Back to the beaches -- Widening the circle of scholars -- New methods, many discoveries -- The early Manila galleons -- Many insights, strange byways -- Following up, looking for breakthroughs -- Steady work exposing the secrets -- Trying conventional techniques -- Stories from the porcelains -- Steps forward, steps backward -- Building the Manila galleons -- Surprises and successes -- Twenty years and still searching -- The tragic voyage.
Summary "An inside view of how archaeologists, working like detectives at an ancient crime scene, carefully assemble the evidence that allows scientific reconstruction of events from the distant past. In a series of expeditions from 1999 to 2016, Von der Porten and his dedicated team, in association with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), assembled scores of artifacts, conducted countless hours of archival and other research, and finally concluded that they had located the buried remains of the cargo from the sixteenth century Manila galleon 'San Juanillo' on the shores of Baja California"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Underwater archaeology -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Underwater archaeology.
Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Shipwrecks -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Shipwrecks.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Excavations (Archaeology)
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Antiquities.
Galleons -- Philippines -- Manila.
Galleons.
Philippines -- Manila.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Von der Porten, Edward P. Ghost galleon. First edition. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019] 9781623497675 (DLC) 2018060136 (OCoLC)1090284155
ISBN 162349768X
9781623497682 (electronic book)
9781623497675
1623497671