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Shipwrecks and Provenance: in-situ timber sampling protocols with a focus on wrecks of the Iberian shipbuilding tradition (Paperback)
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Shipwrecks and Provenance: in-situ timber sampling protocols with a focus on wrecks of the Iberian shipbuilding tradition (Paperback)
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Two of the questions most frequently asked by archaeologists of
sites and the objects that populate them are 'How old are you?' and
'Where are you from?' These questions can often be answered through
archaeometric dating and provenance analyses. As both
archaeological sites and objects, shipwrecks pose a special problem
in archaeometric dating and provenance because when they sailed,
they often accumulated new construction material as timbers were
repaired and replaced. Additionally, during periods of
globalization, such as the so-called Age of Discovery, the
provenance of construction materials may not reflect where the ship
was built due to long-distance timber trade networks and the global
nature of these ships' sailing routes. Accepting these special
challenges, nautical archaeologists must piece together the nuanced
relationship between the ship, its timbers, and the shipwreck, and
to do so, wood samples must be removed from the assemblage. Besides
the provenance of the vessel's wooden components, selective removal
and analysis of timber samples can also provide researchers with
unique insights relating to environmental history. For this period,
wood samples could help produce information on the emergent global
economy; networks of timber trade; forestry and carpentry
practices; climate patterns and anomalies; forest reconstruction;
repairs made to ships and when, why, and where those occurred; and
much more. This book is a set of protocols to establish the need
for wood samples from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists in the
removal of samples for a suite of archaeometric techniques
currently available to provenance the timbers used to construct
wooden ships and boats. While these protocols will prove helpful to
archaeologists working on shipwreck assemblages from any time
period and in any place, this book uses Iberian ships of the 16th
to 18th centuries as its case studies because their global mobility
poses additional challenges to the problem at hand. At the same
time, their prolificacy and ubiquity make the wreckage of these
ships a uniquely global phenomenon.
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