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Ghost Galleon : The Discovery and Archaeology of the San Juanillo on the Shores of Baja California /

"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 wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Von der Porten, Edward P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.