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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 ...
Modern Greece : Values of a Civil War Blockade-Runner
(East Carolina University, 2014-11-12)
On June 27, 1862, during the American Civil War, the blockade-runner Modern Greece ran aground off the coast of Wilmington, NC. The ship was within reach of the guns of Fort Fisher, protecting the vessel from the Union ...
WAR ON THE CHESAPEAKE: ARTIFACT ANALYSIS OF A WAR OF 1812 FLOTILLA SHIP
(5/16/2016)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine and evaluate the material culture recovered from an early nineteenth-century vessel that operated in the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812. The shipwreck site, designated ...
Bermuda: A Case Study on the Impact of Maritime Introduced Contagions and the Yellow Fever Epidemics of the Nineteenth Century
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-01)
Contagion is an unfortunate consequence of conflict and trade. Bermuda's isolation and rich history of maritime commercial and naval activities provides an excellent case study to review the impact of trade on the introduction ...
The dish ran away with the spoon : revisiting unprovenienced foodways artifacts from eighteenth century Spanish fleet shipwrecks
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)
The Spanish empire was the first European power to establish permanent settlements that flourished as New World colonies on several of the Caribbean islands and coasts of North America. The distance between Spain and the ...
Illuminating the Lighthouse: An Historical and Archaeological Examination of the Causes and Consequences of Economic and Social Change at the Currituck Beach Light Station
(East Carolina University, 2017-11-29)
The purpose of this project was to gather historical and archaeological data to illuminate potential relationships between economic and social investment in lighthouse complexes, and enhance an understanding of the multitude ...
"The Bower Yet Remains": Historical and Archaeological Technomic Analysis of Anchor Design Trends in The Long Nineteenth Century
(East Carolina University, 2017-09-22)
In the course of undertaking maritime archaeological research, archaeologists often find that anchors are without context or provenance and that the only potential identifying features lie in an anchor's design. This study ...
Developing a Supplemental Archaeological Methodology: A Photogrammetric Study of Shipwrecks Using a Low-Cost ROV
(East Carolina University, 2017-11-15)
In recent years, photogrammetry has been increasingly used as a supplement to traditional archaeological mapping methods. This study aims to show that photogrammetry can be a viable supplement, and in some cases a replacement, ...
Vada Volaterrana: A Comparison of Roman Harbors and their Place Within Mediterranean Connectivity
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
This thesis focuses on the site of Vada Volaterrana in modern day Tuscany in the context of its Mediterranean connectivity. In this study, Mediterranean connectivity in the ancient Roman world addresses how harbor sites ...
Who Are You? An Archaeological Examination of the Human Remains Associated with Vasa
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
When the Swedish warship Vasa sank in 1628, approximately 30 lives were lost. The ship was raised and fully excavated in the 1950s and 1960s, and through the course of the excavation, over 1,500 human bones were recorded ...