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Item Embargo A Ship for Every Season: A Reconstruction and Analysis of the Double-Ended Steamer Waccamaw (1861-present) (Eagles Island, North Carolina)(East Carolina University, May 2025) Fosdick, Thomas JosephBuilt on the foot of 10th St. in Manhattan in 1861 by shipbuilder John Englis, the double-ended steamer Waccamaw (ex. Nuestra Señora de Regla, ex. Commodore Hull) existed in a turbulent time in United States history. Amidst technological advances, bloody warfare, and a difficult reconstruction period, the face of the United States would dramatically from the middle to the end of the 19th century. Waccamaw was a product of these times, being used and reused to suit the needs and aspirations of individuals whose actions reflected the uncertainty of the day. This thesis endeavors to explain the processes which formed the Waccamaw site as it exists today on the bank of Eagles Island, North Carolina and by doing so provide insight into the behaviors of those who interacted with the vessel and its archaeological remains. This study is made up of four key elements to accomplish this task: the application of behavioral archaeological concepts of site formation theory, the consideration of environmental circumstances and broader historical trends, the digital reconstruction of the vessel in each stage of its life via the modeling software Rhinoceros® 3D, and the investigation of the site to collect the data necessary to complete a scaled photogrammetric model via Agisoft Metashape®.Item Open Access Bent Machine Guns and Melted Engines: A Study of the Applicability of Aircraft Accident Investigation to the Archaeological Examination of Historic Submerged WWII Aircraft(East Carolina University, May 2025) Morrow, Alexander S.This thesis explores the applicability of aircraft accident investigation to understanding archaeological site formation processes of submerged World War II aircraft. Aircraft accident investigators are professionals who are called to accident scenes, military or civilian, to analyze the causes. Accident investigators attempt to recreate the circumstances of the aircraft accident by studying wreckage distribution, damage patterns on the wreckage, and the physics involved so that they may provide guidance for safer future air travel. Many of the field and laboratory techniques used by aircraft accident investigators, such as site mapping and wreckage identification, align closely with already established archaeological methodologies. This thesis considers a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat shot down during the Battle for Saipan in June 1944 as a case study to test how aircraft accident investigation methods can be applied to archaeological research. The site was excavated over the course of three field seasons from 2019 to 2023 as part of a joint East Carolina University/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency effort to locate and repatriate the remains of the pilot. This thesis conducts a parallel analysis of the site using both aircraft accident investigation and site formation process techniques. These analyses utilize a combination of historical research, geographic information system analysis, computer aided design software, and photogrammetric modeling to examine the aircraft wreck site and recreate the aircraft accident. Ultimately this research aims to reaffirm the value of interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology and proposes a number of field and analytical approaches for archaeologists studying aircraft to adopt in the future.Item Open Access IN PURSUIT OF A HUMBLE BEAST: A GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR THE WHALING FISHERY ON SHACKLEFORD BANKS(East Carolina University, May 2025) Sandahl, WinstonThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the spatial relationship between shore whaling activities on Shackleford Banks and the community that undertook them. From the colonial period to the decline of whaling activities at the beginning of the 20th century, North Carolina’s shores were an established hub for the whaling industry of the Atlantic Ocean. Although the Cape Lookout whaling ground did not amass the same offshore productive capacity as New Bedford or Nantucket, Cape Lookout whaling was nonetheless historically pertinent to the establishment of North Carolina’s economy and settlement. To date, relatively little scholarly research has been conducted into the spatial relationship between the shore whaling activities of Shackleford Banks and the communities that undertook it. By interpreting the results of a geospatial analysis and comparing it to historical sources, sites optimal for whaling activities on Shackleford Banks may come to light.Item Open Access Master at Sea: Navigation Aboard La Concorde/Queen Anne's Revenge(East Carolina University, May 2024) Baker, NicholasThe La Concorde/Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck has a diverse assemblage with research potential that offers valuable insight into life under the pirate Edward Thatch as well as its previous purpose for the transportation of slaves across the Atlantic. As new artifacts continue to be exposed through conservation efforts, the ship’s navigational instruments and possible surveying tools present an opportunity for a unique material culture study that reflects not only their origin and functionality in terms of broader 18th-century navigation methods for pirates, but also how French sailing crews aboard slave ships operated on extended voyages. Included in this collection are instruments such as lead sounding weights, writing slates, a sector, dividers, compass components, and equipment believed to be associated with coastal or terrestrial surveying. These instruments are conserved at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory before being curated and exhibited in the North Carolina Maritime Museum: Beaufort. Each of these instruments were evaluated to determine the navigational needs and training of the pirates who may have used them as well as the French sailors who operated the vessel before its capture by Edward Thatch.Item Open Access The Interconnection of Foodways: An Investigation of Artifacts and the Connections of Three Individual Groups Throughout the Life of La Concorde/ Queen Anne’s Revenge(East Carolina University, May 2024) Hoots, Michaela C.Artifacts recovered archaeologically from La Concorde/ Queen Anne’s Revenge (31CR314) represent three distinct social groups that lived, worked, and were enslaved aboard this vessel, the French La Concorde crew, enslaved Africans, and pirates. Each of these groups acquired, prepared, and ate their food in diverse ways, both on land and at sea. These relate to variables like culture, rank, and time period. This research will focus on the material culture representing foodways, like fragments of brick stoves, faunal remains, cauldrons, pewter sadware, stemware, and cutlery excavated from the wreckage site. It will also compare foodways artifacts to archaeological collections from other slave and pirate shipwrecks. This research initiative aims to add further information and analysis to understanding experiences aboard 18th-century pirate and slave vessels that sailed across the Atlantic. It will contribute towards other themes such as health, slave trade, 18th century piracy, and French maritime history.Item Restricted Return to the Stone Age :the maritime history and nautical archaeology of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin's Dolomite Industry(East Carolina University) Moore, James D.,III.Item Restricted A preliminary investigation of the seaport, Table Bay, and shipwrecks in the vicinity of Cape Town, South Africa(East Carolina University) Harris, Lynn B.The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of both documentary and archaeological sources to supplement the maritime history Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town played an important role as a shipping station for the Dutch East India Company (1652 - 1795), British base to suppress the slave-trade and ship prisoners during the second Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902), focal point for World War I and II troopships, and stopover for passenger shipping services during the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks in the treacherous anchorage, Table Bay, were the cause of financial loss to many nations, particularly the Dutch. Since the eighteenth century, when John Lethbridge ventured into Cape waters with his "most famous diving machine," salvage of these shipwrecks has also become a feature of South Africa's maritime history. Salvage, urban developments, and heavy surf has depleted, destroyed, or buried many shipwreck sites in the vicinity of Cape Town. Artifacts recovered by divers and various collections donated to the South African Cultural History Museum, as well as and the timbers of the Nieuwe Rhoon (1776) excavated during the Civic Center building operations, represent the only material evidence of these sites. A preliminary survey of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century shipwreck sites in the vicinity of Cape Town was conducted. A magnetometer survey to locate and identify remaining sites was undertaken in the near shore Table Bay area. Five sites were located: three dating to the nineteenth century and two to an earlier time period. The potential significance of local sedimentary processes for survey planning was also investigated. Mapping the site of the Huís de Crayenstein (1698) provided data about the cannon and anchors carried aboard Dutch East Indiamen.Item Restricted Naval development and the diffusion of nineteenth-century maritime innovation :an archaeological and historical investigation of the Sassacus-class double-ender, USS Otsego(East Carolina University) Diveley, Brian D.Item Open Access Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Pacific: Themes and Future Directions(2021-07-30) McKinnon, Jennifer F.; Jeffery, Bill; Van Tilburg, HansItem Open Access Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Pacific: Themes and Future Directions(2021) Jeffery, Bill; McKinnon, Jennifer F.; Van Tilburg, HansItem Restricted Of maps and monsters : meaning in cartographic ornamentation(East Carolina University) Garrett, Veronica L.Item Restricted The steam schooner Cosmopolis/Hawaiian steamer Kauai : the Mahukona harbor steamship wreck(East Carolina University) Froning, Donald J., JrThe purpose of this thesis is twofold. With a narrow focus, the purpose is to document in detail the history of the West Coast steam schooner Cosmopolis, which became the Hawaiian steamer Kauai, and later sank at Mahukona Harbor on the Kohala Coast of the Island of Hawai‘i in 1913. This documentation includes the archaeology of a steamship wreck site at Mahukona Harbor, and the confirmation, based upon archaeology and history, that the wreck site at Mahukona Harbor represents the remains of the steamer Kauai and possibly the cargo of its final trip. With a wider focus, the purpose of this thesis is to show that the Hawaiian steamer working in the sugar industry of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is the same vessel type as the West Coast steam schooner serving that coast’s lumber industry of the same time period. The steamer Cosmopolis / Kauai demonstrates this link, as it was essentially both a steam schooner and a Hawaiian steamer, with only a deck structure modification to separate them. The detailed historical narrative in the thesis shows that it was a typical lumber hauler that became a typical sugar carrier. The steamer Kauai is significant historically for a number of reasons. Built at San Francisco in 1887 as the steamer Cosmopolis, it was among the first of what many believe to be a California invention, the “steam schooner”. The steam schooner brings into question how early designs of different vessel types may have influenced the evolution of others; further study of these technology transfers is needed. Some scholars believe that the “steam schooner” is a unique California design; others maintain that it came from elsewhere, such as the Great Lakes region. This subject requires further research, and raises many questions concerning technology dispersion in a marine setting. These schooner-rigged propeller-driven steamships known as steam schooners plied the waters of the West Coast of the United States, Mexico, and Canada well into the twentieth century. They played a key role in the lumber industry on that coast. The Cosmopolis was the first steam schooner to carry lumber to San Francisco from Grays Harbor, Washington, on a regular basis. The Cosmopolis was sold to Hawai‘i interests in 1895, and the name was changed to Kauai. Most steamers working the sugar industry at that time were built in California or elsewhere on the West Coast; Kauai was one of very few that had a West Coast career prior to coming to Hawai‘i. Most steamers came over almost immediately after they were built. There were a few West Coast-built Hawaiian steamers that were built before the supposed first “steam schooners”. These add to the questions noted above regarding design origins and technology transfers.Item Restricted The legal choice in a cultural landscape : an explanatory model created from the maritime and terrestrial archaeological record of the Roanoke River, North Carolina(East Carolina University) Friedman, Adam DavidItem Restricted An archaeological and historical survey of a Jeffersonian gunboat(East Carolina University) Enright, Jeffrey M.Item Restricted The schooner as an economic tool in the development of North Carolina's commerce(East Carolina University) Dodds, Tricia J.Item Restricted Historiographical and cultural study of Anglo-American naval edged weapons, 1797-1815(East Carolina University) Wolfe, Sarah CatherineItem Restricted Development of the trireme and naval warfare : Alalia to Salamis(East Carolina University) Williams, Stephen A.Item Restricted Spatial patterning aboard the Millecoquins wreck : interpreting shipboard life and functional use of an early 19th century Great Lakes sailing vessel(East Carolina University) Whitesides, Scott M.Item Restricted Archaeological investigation of the workboat Widgeon : a Chesapeake Bay schooner(East Carolina University) Watts, Jennifer J.Item Restricted A comparative study of the effectiveness of German submarine warfare on the eastern seaboard of the United States in the World Wars(East Carolina University) Blake, Samuel