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With humans moving easily from water to land, the archaeology of the shore should likewise be seamless. This principle of the "seamlessness" of human interaction with the maritime environment undergirds author Ben Ford's sweeping survey. In The Shore Is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario, Ford explores human interaction with the waters of the lake, spanning the international border, from 5,000 years ago to the early twentieth century. He interprets written and archaeological sources using a maritime cultural landscape approach to investigate how the perception of place influences the interaction between humans and the physical environment. Ford focuses on the lake shore, which served as a link between the maritime and terrestrial worlds of the people who lived around it. Lake Ontario was the first of the Great Lakes to be developed by Europeans, and it was part of the home ranges of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississauga, as well as other Native American groups known only from their archaeological remains. Consequently, Lake Ontario was at the heart of early Great Lakes maritime culture. Using terrestrial and submerged archaeological methods, history, and ethnography, the author meticulously weaves together previously disparate data to construct a cohesive and holistic understanding of this important region from ancient to modern times. The Shore Is a Bridge presents a new way to interpret the maritime archaeological record and maritime culture by synthesizing archaeological data, historical documents, and oral histories into an all-inclusive view of the lakeshore.
In "Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812,"
archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine
sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial
shipbuilding. They range from four small prewar vessels to four 16-
or 20-gun brigs, three warships of much greater size, a steamboat
hull converted into an armed schooner, two gunboats, and two
postwar schooners. Despite their differing degrees of preservation
and archaeological study, each vessel reveals something about how
its creators sought the best balance of strength, durability,
capacity, stability, speed, weatherliness, and seaworthiness for
the anticipated naval struggle on the lakes along the US-Canadian
border.
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