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The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam - Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam - Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
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In Archaeology Under Water (1966: 19), pioneer nautical
archaeologist George Bass pointed out how much easier it is to
train someone who is already an archaeologist to become a diver
than to take trained divers and teach them to do archaeology. While
this is 'generally true, there have also been occasions when
well-trained and enthusiastic sport-divers have been willing to
accept the train ing and discipline necessary to conduct good
archaeological science, becoming first-rate scholars in the
process. Dr. Donna Souza's book is the product of just such a
transition. It shows how a sport-diver and volunteer fieldworker
can proceed through a rigorous graduate program to achieve research
results that are convincing in their own right and point toward new
directions in the discipline as a whole. What is new in this book
for maritime archaeology? Perhaps the most obvious and important
feature of Dr. Souza's archaeological and historical analysis of
the wreck at Pulaski Reef and its contemporaries in the Dry
Tortugas National Park, Florida, is the way it serves as a means to
a larger end---namely an understanding of the social history of the
transition from sail to steam in late nineteenth century maritime
commerce in America. The relationship between changes in technology
and culture is a classic theme in anthropology, and this study
extends ~t theme into the domain of underwater archaeology.
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