Shipwrecks and Provenance

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rich, Sara A. (-)
Otros Autores: Nayling, Nigel, Momber, Garry
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress 2018.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4744387x*spi
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.

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