Oceans Odyssey 4. Pottery from the Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida - A Merchant Vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet (Hardcover)

The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated 117-ton Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario, the ship's Seville dominated tablewares are a revealing index of unchanged cultural tastes and continued production at the end of Spain's Golden Age. For cooking the crew relied on Afro-Caribbean colonoware, possibly the first recorded archaeological evidence of maritime slavery in the Americas fleets. Two tin-glazed plates painted with papal coat of arms - the Keys of Heaven and triple crown - may have been used by Spain-bound clergymen from the newly formed Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith. Samples of all ceramics were subjected to Inductively-Coupled Plasma Spectrometry (ICPS) analysis to determine vessel origins. Six chapters focus on the tablewares, tin-glazed papal plates, Afro-Caribbean cooking wares, the olive jars, Inductively-Coupled Plasma Spectrometry results, and a study of how the pottery reflects Spanish colonial economic models, also compared to Roman and medieval structures.

General

Imprint:	Oxbow Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	July 2014
Editors:	Greg Stemm • Sean Kingsley
Authors:	Ellen Gerth
Dimensions:	289 x 222 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-78297-710-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Underwater archaeology Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Ceramic arts, pottery, glass > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
LSN:	1-78297-710-4
Barcode:	9781782977100

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