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The Evolutionary Development of Floating Dry Docks
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The floating dry dock represents one of the most technologically advanced structures ever designed to operate in a maritime environment. These indispensable repair facilities provided necessary maintenance to commercial ...
APRONS OF LEAD : EXAMINATION OF AN ARTIFACT ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE SHIPWRECK SITE
(East Carolina University, 2012)
In terms of artillery from shipwreck sites, gun tubes are typically the most well researched artifacts. Small finds like lead cannon aprons get significantly less attention but they too can reveal a great deal of information ...
The Influence of the War of 1812 on Great Lakes Shipbuilding
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether the War of 1812 influenced ship construction techniques on the Great Lakes. During the War of 1812, much of the fighting in the North American theater of war primarily ...
Defining Eastern North Carolina Upriver Steamboats Through Tar River Archaeology and History
(East Carolina University, 2012)
This thesis will identify the salient features of North Carolina upriver steamboats and their relationships to steamboats from a variety of regions in the United States in an effort to understand the means by which people ...
A VIEW THROUGH THE PERISCOPE : ADVANCED AND GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATION OF NAVAL BATTLEFIELDS
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Battlefield visualizations have existed for nearly ten thousand years and are found in almost all corners of the world. These may range from simple representations of opposing hunting parties depicted in Neolithic cave art ...
Beyond Historic Bath : Archaeological Investigation of Handy's Point, Bath, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2013)
This thesis examines the Handy's Point site in Bath, North Carolina, to assess its chronological position, fill a void in our past knowledge, and concludes it is not the former location of the village of Secotan. Artifacts ...
The Impact of Empire : The Effects of British Imperial Culture on the Maritime Landscape of Bluefields Bay, Jamaica
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The history of Colonial Bluefields Bay diverges from the widely accepted model of eighteenth-century histories of the British Caribbean and imperial Jamaica. The society in Bluefields was not based on sugar because local ...
For the Love of Profit : Examining Traditional Capitalism on Eagles Island, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2012)
As European colonists first arrived in the North American colonies, they brought with them the nascent principles of capitalism. Since then, the theories and practices regarding capitalism have changed, going through phases ...
THE SWEDISH SAILOR'S TABLE : A Study of Vasa's Wooden Tableware
(East Carolina University, 2014)
On 10 August 1628, Swedish warship Vasa sailed out of port on its maiden voyage, and in a light gust, quickly sank to the bottom of Stockholm Harbor. For more than three centuries, what should have been the pride of the ...
Prehistoric Ceramics from the Barber Creek Site (31PT259), Greenville, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2011)
This is a study of the prehistoric pottery from the Barber Creek site located along the Tar River drainage in Greenville, North Carolina. Stratified archaeological remains are present in a one meter deposit of sand spanning ...