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DETECTING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNATURES IN SHALLOW WATER: A STUDY OF THE CHICAMACOMICO RACES BATTLESCAPE (1-5 OCTOBER 1861)
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-06)
After the Confederate surrender at Forts Hatteras and Clark in August of 1861, the Union took control of Pamlico Sound. Confederate soldiers, however, remained in control of an outpost on nearby Roanoke Island. This was ...
Keeping History Afloat: A Study of the Preservation of the Museum Ship Olympia
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)
Historic ships are crucial to understanding maritime and naval history. The preservation of working vessels and museum ships of historical significance is necessary to ensure their continued availability for public ...
"War Is War, And I Must Carry Out My Duty": A Geospatial And Statistical Analysis of North Carolina's First World War Battlescape
(East Carolina University, 2018-11-27)
Although the United States was late to enter the First World War, the waters of the nation became a battlefield from 1917 onward. Ships operating along North Carolina's coast recurrently fell victim to the unrestricted ...
Technical Considerations and Cultural Context: Archaeological Management of Prehistoric and Historic Wooden Canoes
(East Carolina University, 2018-03-29)
Cultural resource managers often encounter historic and prehistoric wooden canoes during their field investigations or inventory processes. There is considerable variation in methods used by state entities and research ...
Assessing the Management Practices of Historic Wreck Sites Containing Human Remains: USS Monitor, H.L. Hunley, USS Arizona, SS Caribsea, and HMT Bedfordshire
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-02)
This thesis analyzes the complex practices associated with the management of wreck sites that contain human remains through the comparison of two historic eras of ferrous hulled or clad vessels and the differing management ...
3D Printing for Maritime Cultural Heritage: A Design For All Approach
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-07)
This thesis examines issues in accessibility to maritime cultural heritage. Using the Pillar Dollar Wreck in Biscayne National Park, Florida, this thesis presents an approach to public outreach based on the concept of ...
An Examination of Sanitation and Hygiene Habit Artifacts Found Aboard Vasa Health, Sanitation, and Life at Sea in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-02)
Vasa was a 64-gun Swedish warship in the service of King Gustav II Adolf (r. 1611 – 1632). The vessel sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, taking at least 16 of the approximately 150 persons on board to the depths of Stockholm ...
YIELD STRENGTH OF THE EGADI 10 WARSHIP: USING NONLINEAR COMPUTER SIMULATIONS TO EXAMINE COLLISION DYNAMICS IN GRECO-ROMAN NAVAL CONFLICTS
(East Carolina University, 2019-12)
The study of ancient Mediterranean naval warfare expanded dramatically with the emergence of maritime archaeology and the subsequent discovery of artifacts and ship remains such as the Athlit and Egadi rams. The ship ...
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 ...
The Predicament of Traditional Femininity: A Gender Material Culture Analysis of Civil War Blockade Runners
(East Carolina University, 2016-11-16)
This thesis will seek to examine the tension between nineteenth-century Southern gender expectations of upper-class femininity contrasted with the necessities of wartime and determine if this tension is evident in the ...