Shipwrecks and Provenance
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 us...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.