The assemblage of weights recovered from excavations at Port Royal, Jamaica is the largest collection of seventeenth-century weights recovered from a single colonial site. On June 7, 1692, just shortly before noon, an earthquake shook the community of Port Royal and in a matter of minutes, due to a process known as liquefaction, approximately thirty-two acres of the colonial port community sank below the waters of Kingston Harbor. To date, 90 weights have been recovered from nautical and terrestrial excavations at the site. Many of these bear the stamps and ciphers of English trade guilds as well as owners marks and regal stamps of authority. Several weights in the collection also bear a mark in the shape of a dagger or sword, which is asso...
[About the book] In 1991, sports divers discovered a previously unknown section of wooden shipwre...
In June 1813, several ships froma combined fleet that unsuccessfully tried to liberate Tarragona fro...
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In the Caribbean, the eighteenth century symbolized a period of shifting powers in the region. Spai...
The assemblages of pan-balance weights recovered from the excavations of Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun...
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Title: Assessing Ceramic Evidence for Oristán, Jamaica’s Second Spanish Colonial Settlement Beginnin...
Little is known of the mechanisms of internal trade in Jamaica, especially amongst the poorer segmen...
This dissertation examines 17th-century Chinese porcelain found in Port Royal, Jamaica during the va...
This thesis examined cask material, including cask staves, heads, hoops, bungs and other components ...
The French Revolution had begun in 1789 and by 1793 Britain and France were engaged in war. Hostili...
Historical documents are frequently used for archaeological purposes and archaeology is used to supp...
The concern over lead poisoning in modern times has, in turn, influenced many archaeologists and his...
This thesis describes the research undertaken to determine the origins of bricks recovered during th...
To date, historical and archaeological research has focused only on the late seventeenth- to ninetee...
[About the book] In 1991, sports divers discovered a previously unknown section of wooden shipwre...
In June 1813, several ships froma combined fleet that unsuccessfully tried to liberate Tarragona fro...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
In the Caribbean, the eighteenth century symbolized a period of shifting powers in the region. Spai...
The assemblages of pan-balance weights recovered from the excavations of Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
Title: Assessing Ceramic Evidence for Oristán, Jamaica’s Second Spanish Colonial Settlement Beginnin...
Little is known of the mechanisms of internal trade in Jamaica, especially amongst the poorer segmen...
This dissertation examines 17th-century Chinese porcelain found in Port Royal, Jamaica during the va...
This thesis examined cask material, including cask staves, heads, hoops, bungs and other components ...
The French Revolution had begun in 1789 and by 1793 Britain and France were engaged in war. Hostili...
Historical documents are frequently used for archaeological purposes and archaeology is used to supp...
The concern over lead poisoning in modern times has, in turn, influenced many archaeologists and his...
This thesis describes the research undertaken to determine the origins of bricks recovered during th...
To date, historical and archaeological research has focused only on the late seventeenth- to ninetee...
[About the book] In 1991, sports divers discovered a previously unknown section of wooden shipwre...
In June 1813, several ships froma combined fleet that unsuccessfully tried to liberate Tarragona fro...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...