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Postmortem Archaeology: Reinterpreting Salvaged Sites using the CSS Neuse as a Case Study
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-19)Traditionally, salvaged wreck sites are disregarded by academia because contextual data are lost without detailed measured site maps. When these sites are ignored, the information that can be gained from individual artifacts ... -
Preliminary Report on Phase II Testing: Grover's Creek Cove Site July 1997
(1998)This paper reports on the Phase II testing of a site in Grover’s Creek Cove, St. Leonard’s Creek, a tributary of the Patuxent River in Calvert Count, Maryland. Work was conducted on the site between 30 June and 25 July ... -
Press Gang Revisited: Polarization, Nuance, and the Study of Impressment in the Royal Navy
(East Carolina University, 2016-12-15)Over the course of the long eighteenth century, Britain grew from an island nation with limited colonial holdings to a transatlantic imperial power. Because of this territorial expansion, the Royal Navy increased dramatically ... -
PROPRIETARIES, PRIVATEERS, AND PIRATES: America’s Forgotten Golden Age
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)Scholars have usually treated all pirates as the same, regardless of class and education. Gentleman privateers and merchants from Jamaica, Bermuda, and other English cities of the West Indies, however, varied in cultivation, ... -
Pushing the Paradigm: The Devotional Medals of El Buen Consejo in a Historical and Archaeological Context
(2005-05)Devotional medals have a long, but quiet history. With little written about the production, purpose, and distribution of theses religiously themed objects, scholars studying them must piece together bits of information ... -
REASSESSING THE CAPE HATTERAS MINEFIELD: AN EXAMINATION OF NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL DEFENSES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)In response to the German U-boat attacks on Allied Atlantic merchant shipping during the Second World War, Ernest King, the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, approved construction of a defensive wall of naval mines ... -
The Rigging and Gun Tackle Blocks of the Swedish Royal Warship Vasa
(East Carolina University, 2011)Rigging blocks are absolutely essential to the operation of a large sailing vessel, yet little has been published on these vital pieces of hardware. This thesis examines and analyzes the rigging and gun tackle blocks found ... -
Scattered to the Wind : An Evaluation of the Disaster Landscape of Coastal North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2012)Coastal North Carolina has had a long and intimate relationship with severe weather events, the outcome of which has affected the physical, economical, and social structures of the State. The primary objective of this ... -
The Scuppernong River Project, Volume 1: Explorations of Tyrrell County Maritime History
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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 ... -
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Searching for the Schooner Rob Roy: An Historical Archaeological Analysis of a Civil War Blockade Runner
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)The American Civil War spanned four years of bloody fratricide that divided the country. During those years, President Lincoln declared a blockade on all Southern ports hoping to cut supplies to the Confederacy in an attempt ...