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The migration of the sharpie : economic, environmental, and archaeological aspects
(East Carolina University, 2015)
In the late nineteenth century, the United States saw the development of a crucial working vessel type, the sharpie. This thesis will demonstrate that as the sharpie migrated south down the east coast of the United States, ...
Matters of Steel : Illustrating and Assessing the Deterioration of the World War II Merchant Freighter Caribsea
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The purpose of this thesis is to acquire historical and archaeological datasets for the illustration and interpretation of site formation processes affecting a World War II merchant shipwreck, and to use this data to develop ...
Balancing Acts : Public Access And Archaeology In The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District
(East Carolina University, 2015)
During the American Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina, served as an important blockade running center for the Confederacy. The Cape Fear region's high traffic and dangerous shoals resulted in the largest concentration ...
The Bay Of Storms And Tavern Of The Seas : Risk In The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of The Harbor At Cape Town, South Africa
(East Carolina University, 2015)
South Africa's connection with the sea is most prevalent in its founding harbor at Cape Town. Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the passage around the Cape of Good Hope via Table Bay represented the most important oceanic ...
SEAFARING WOMEN : An Investigation of Material Culture for Potential Archaeological Diagnostics of Women on Nineteenth-Century Sailing Ships
(East Carolina University, 2014)
During the 19th century, women went to sea on sailing ships. Wives and family accompanied captains on their voyages from New England. They wrote journals and letters that detailed their life on board, adventures in foreign ...
A Determination Worthy of a Better Cause : Naval Action at the Battle of Roanoke Island 7 February 1862
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The Battle of Roanoke Island, during the American Civil War, was one of the first major amphibious landing operations in U.S. military history. As the Union Army landed troops on the island, an accompanying Union Naval ...
The Infamous Convict Museum Ship Success : an Archaeological Investigation of Material Culture and Identity Formation Processes
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This thesis examines the relationship between material culture and the formation of cultural identity through an analysis of the artifact assemblage from the former traveling museum ship, Success. Before sinking near Port ...
Passengers, Packages, And Copper : The Steamer Pewabic, Its Archaeology, Management, Material Culture, And The Development Of The Keweenaw Peninsula
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Pewabic was a passenger/package freight propeller with multiple identities that will serve in this study to better understand the tourism explosion and the copper boom of the Great Lakes during the Civil War. The hybrid ...
The Casks from Vasa.
(East Carolina University, 2012)
When the warship Vasa was raised in 1961, wooden casks were found in nearly every area of the ship. Unfortunately, this important find category was not subject to detailed recording and study until now. This thesis explains ...
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 ...