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  Guns of Santissimo Sacramento
Examples of this practice are the use of exotic preservatives to stabilize timber recovered after millennia of immersion, the exploitation of radiocarbon techniques to date organic material, and the application of the skills of the numismatist and of experts in early pottery and glassware.
Marine archaeology draws on and feeds a general fascination with the development of ships, a fascination which increases in intensity as we go further back into history and into areas for which written records are scarce.
It is no exaggeration to assert that the application of marine archaeology broadens the study of early modern ordnance from a technical exercise of limited value to a potentially powerful source of evidence for the economic and social historian as well as for the student of naval architecture and weaponry.
www.angelfire.com /ga4/guilmartin.com/Santissimo.html   (13182 words)

  
 1766 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
January 21 - James Quin, English actor (born 1693)
May 8 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (born 1693)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1766   (559 words)

  
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 New Catholic Dictionary: Archaeology, Christian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
That branch of the science of archaeology which has for its ultimate object the study of ancient Christian life, as inferred from the remains of the Christian monuments (supplemented by literature, objects of art, etc.) erected during the first six centuries of the Christian era.
(1575-1629) Known as the Columbus of the Catacombs and the Father of Christian Archaeology, was the first to begin the systematic exploration of the Roman cemeteries.
(1813-1872) Gave a course of archaeology at the preparatory seminary at Tours and made researches that entitle him to be considered a veritable pioneer in France of the science of Christian archaeology.
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 Welcome to Sicily Bella - About the province of Siracusa
The remains of the imposing gate, the Porta della Montagna, at the entrance to the town destroyed by the 1693 earthquake, can still be seen, and also the ruins of the Collegio dei Gesuiti, of Palazzo Belludia and of the churches of San Nicolò, San Francesco and of the Carmine.
In 1693 Noto was destroyed by the earthquakes, but its reconstruction planning led to such marvelous results thanks to the work of a group of three architects, Gagliardi, Labisi and Sinatra, who had to face the problem of rebuilding a city which had been extremely important before being totally destroyed by the disaster.
Like most of the towns in the Noto valley, Palazzolo Acreide was also half-destroyed by the terrible 1693 earthquake, which resulted, however, in its urbanistic renaissance at the beginning of the XVIII century in the fashionable Baroque style of that period.
www.sicilybella.com /about_siracusa.html   (1905 words)

  
 Virtual Phips
It is, however, important that the archaeological research bear in mind the real possibility of English activity on the site by the later 1630s, and that that activity may have been at least in part generated by the fur trade.
Whether the archaeology will solve these puzzles remains to be seen, but it may well do so as this report will note.
A pioneer and leader in Maine historical archaeology, he was the assistant director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
w3.salemstate.edu /~ebaker/Phipsweb/phipsindex.html   (1359 words)

  
 Archaeology - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
The territory known as La Florida, on the northern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, began to be charted by early 16th-century Spanish navigators soon after their discovery of America.
In 1693, a scientific expedition, led by Captain Andres de Pez, conducted a reconnaissance of Pensacola Bay.
Pez was accompanied by the Creole scientist Carlos Sigüenza y Gongora, whose map of the bay shows details of water depth, landmarks, and sites of native villages encountered by the survey party.
dhr.dos.state.fl.us /archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/history.cfm   (928 words)

  
 An Industrial Revolution? Future Directions for Industrial Archaeology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
In the most recent overview of industrial archaeology in the UK Sir Neil Cossons cautioned that industrial archaeology risks becoming a “one generation subject” that stands on the edge of oblivion alongside the mid-twentieth century passion for folklife studies.
In a period sense, the separation from Post-Medieval archaeology has in practice worked as an unhelpful separation of production from consumption, and IA may be better subsumed within a broader study of later 2nd millenium archaeology (under whatever title).
Industrial archaeology is a powerful tool, which has the potential to become the basis of much of our thinking on sustaining the environment as a whole.
www.art.man.ac.uk /ARTHIST/tag/Indust.htm   (4282 words)

  
 MIAMI INDIANS ETHNOHISTORY ARCHIVES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The opinions expressed and the language used do not reflect the opinions or standards of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, but are, rather, indicative of thought in that historical moment during which the document was published.
Accordingly, when in 1693 the king issued an edict creating a new judicial district at Montreal, the Quebec council offered the name of Charles Juchereau "as one of the most capable persons who might be chosen for this office."(see fn.
7) Charles Juchereau's oath of office on October 12, 1693 reveals that he was a man of good life and habits and a communicant of the Roman apostolic faith.
www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/miamis4/M17-03_24a.html   (2868 words)

  
 Southwestern Archaeology - Messages
Archaeology conducted in the absence of such records is a different discipline with somewhat different goals, techniques, problems, and emphases than archaeology conducted on the remains of societies that _did_ leave such records.
The term "prehistoric archaeology" does not connote the study of imbecilic cavemen any more than the term "Classical archaeology" connotes the study of folks with great "savoir faire" and a fondness for Beethoven.
In the discipline of history (one of the parents of anthropology-hence, archaeology) the term historic is loosely thrown around with the term "era".
www.swanet.org /zarchives/gotcaliche/alldailyeditions/97aug/294.html   (3866 words)

  
 Investigating Ferryland - Archaeology - Colony of Avalon
While neither oral history nor archaeology might be expected to provide such information, written sources are remarkably silent on such topics as the appearance of Avalon and the Pool Plantation, the location of the settlers' cemetery and so forth.
While archaeology is selective in this way, it is not selective in whose remains are preserved.
Evidence from archaeology, on the other hand, continues to be revealed each summer as new structures and thousands of artifacts are discovered.
www.heritage.nf.ca /avalon/arch   (567 words)

  
 African-American Archaeology Newsletter, Spring 2000
One, a "Negro boy, Hans," was left to her daughter Blandina (Pelletreau 1893:225); Blandina is thought to have lived on the Kierstede property during the period when objects were placed in one of these pits.
Perry provides an excellent example of how historical archaeology can be used to test, and ultimately refute, a widely accepted historiographic model, in this case one that, for over a century, has served the interests of European colonists and their allies in southern Africa.
Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact is based upon extensive fieldwork in Swaziland (a nominally independent country almost totally surrounded by South Africa) and synthesis of previous archaeological, documentary, and oral historical work conducted in neighboring South Africa and Mozambique.
www.diaspora.uiuc.edu /A-AAnewsletter/newsletter28.html   (8335 words)

  
 African Diaspora Archaeology Network, Newsletter, September 2005
Archaeology dissertations are listed for the period of 2000 onward, covering the time since the last issue of the former African-American Archaeology Newsletter.
The Historical Archaeology of Nevis, West Indies: Capitalism, Environment, and the Evolution of the Caribbean Colonial Landscape, 1625-1833, by Marco G. Meniketti.
Moreover, the Spanish regime in Florida, beginning in 1693 with a Royal Decree promising protection and freedom to all enslaved who reached St. Augustine, drew escapees southward throughout much of the eighteenth century, leading to the formation of the first "legally sanctioned" free African community at Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose.
www.diaspora.uiuc.edu /news0905/news0905.html   (10272 words)

  
 Native Americans:Historic:Resources:Additional Readings
In Calumet and fleur-de-lys: archaeology of Indian and French contact in the midcontinent, edited by John A. Walthall and Thomas E. Emerson, pp.
The archaeology of the Grand Village of the Illinois: Report of the Grand Village Research Project, 1991-1996; Grand Village of the Illinois State Historic Site (11LS13), LaSalle County, Illinois.
Hall, Robert L. The archaeology of La Salle's Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock and the problem of the Newell Fort.
www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/re_readings.html   (5691 words)

  
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A question for future research is how Hausaland's growth is connected to the decline of Western Sudanic cities, whether this is a trade route shift driven by economic developments or the result of political assertion of control "upstream" on a trade route.
The political development of the Gold Coast seems to be that of a semiperiphery to Central civilization from the 16th century Portuguese enforced monopoly to the seventeenth and eighteenth century suppression of coastal empires and (involuntary) stimulation of inland empires instead, to the nineteenth century subjugation of the surviving inland empire by an overseas suzerain.
Only if urban archaeology at Begho and Bono Manso forces an upward reevaluation of their populations pre-1500 is this judgment likely to change.
www.etext.org /Politics/World.Systems/papers/wilkinson_david/spatio-temporal_boundaries_african_civilizations   (16119 words)

  
 Florida Books from University Press of Florida
Judith A. Bense, professor of archaeology at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, is the author of Archaeology of the Southeastern United States: Paleoindian to World War II, as well as articles in Journal of American Archaeology and Encyclopedia of North American Archaeology.
He is the author of Excavations on the Franciscan Frontier: Archaeology of the Fig Springs Missionon the (UPF, 1992), Crystal River: A Ceremonial Mound Center Florida Gulf Coast of the, and Like Beads on a String: A Culture History Seminole Indians in North Peninsular Florida.
Jerald T. Milanich, curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, is the author of Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present (UPF, 1998) and nine other books about the Indians of the southeastern United States.
www.upf.com /holiday/fla_hist.html   (1381 words)

  
 Spanish and Mexican Periods (1776-1846) - San Francisco Coastal Defenses - Presidio of San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The final assault on the Presidio came on July 9, 1846, when Captain John B. Montgomery of the U.S. sloop Portsmouth landed a force of marines to seize the settlement of Yerba Buena, which would later become known as San Francisco.
At the Castillo de San Joaquin, the marines found three brass guns that they believed to be 12 and 18 pounders, made in 1623, 1628 and 1693.
Nothing remains of El Castillo or the above ground elements of Bateria de Yerba Buena, but the archaeology remains of the latter are unstudied.
www.nps.gov /prsf/coast_defense/spanish   (1183 words)

  
 The Latest Scoop in Biblical Archaeology (Associates for Biblical Research)
Lionel Casson, one of the world’s leading experts on ancient nautical archaeology and seafaring, describes the route of the Alexandrian grain ships from Alexandria in Egypt to Rome.
In a careful study of the wind patterns on the Mediterranean Sea and the account of Lucian’s Navigation that gives the account of the voyage of the grain ship Isis, he has demonstrated that the ship left Alexandria and headed in a northward direction.
Tsunamis are known in the Mediterranean Sea, and several have been recorded in the history of Malta.
abr.christiananswers.net /scoop.html   (8041 words)

  
 REFERENCES: Social Science Applications of Remote Sensing, null null
The Center was established in 1986 as a facility for scientific research in the fields of archaeology, geography and geology.
Landscape archaeology and remote sensing in Southern Madagascar.
It is intended as an overview at a beginers level and touches on physics, environmental sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and geography.
sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu /tg/resources.jsp?rd=rs&ds=4   (4022 words)

  
 Tour By Mexico ® - Patzcuaro in Michoacan State, Mexico
In the middle of the plaza is a bronze statue of Doña Gertrudis Bocanegra, a Patzcuaro native and a heroine of the War of Independence.
Construction was begun on this church in 1693, and it was the sanctuary of Our Lady of Health for 191 years.
Of neoclassical style, this temple was built in the early 19th century.
www.tourbymexico.com /michoa/patzcua/patzcua.htm   (947 words)

  
 AIA - Annual Meeting - 2005 Meeting Recap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Over 300 papers were presented throughout the weekend on diverse topics such as archaeology’s relationship with other disciplines, a session on the history of archaeology, the interpretation of artifacts and assemblages, cultural heritage issues, teaching archaeology, and digital photography.
As a consequence of the limited number of university departments of archaeology, archaeologists have traditionally sought teaching positions in departments of Classics or Art History, and less frequently, History and Anthropology.
In the past ten years, he has worked in numerous areas of the Saint-Lawrence River in Quebec, directing surveys on the wrecks of the Corossol (1693) and the HMS Viper (1779), and has codirected the excavation of the Elizabeth and Mary (1690), which is the subject of his talk.
www.archaeological.org /webinfo.php?page=10286   (1744 words)

  
 Pecos National Historic Park
In 1927, Alfred Vincent Kidder invited his colleagues to join him at Pecos Ruins to discuss common archaeological problems and concerns.
Kidder was nearing the completion of his excavations at Pecos Ruins that had begun in 1915, a project that would become a landmark in the history of New World archaeology.
In addition to holding wide-ranging discussions on the status of southwestern archaeology, Kidder's peers had an opportunity to witness the results of his detailed and systematic excavation methods.
members.tripod.com /~CAMPGROUND1/pecos-nat-historic-park.html   (1144 words)

  
 SAA Bulletin 17(2): COSWA Corner
We also compare some of these data to the 1994 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Census and recent reports by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) of relevance to the status of women in archaeology.
Background: We call your attention to a preliminary report on the 1998 AAA Survey of Departments reported in the Anthropology Newsletter 39(7), written by Patsy Evans of the Academic Relations Department of the AAA.
Responses from AIA members, actively involved in archaeological research (519 women, 472 men), showed that 69 percent of those who reported they were employed in temporary or part-time positions were women.
www.saa.org /Publications/saabulletin/17-2/SAA8.html   (921 words)

  
 Module 9
Paper presented at the ALSF Meeting on Techniques and Technical Developments in Aggregate-Related Archaeology, Keyworth (British Geological Survey), October 2003.
Smith, R.A. & Dewey, H. The High Terrace of the Thames: report on excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey in 1913.
In F.F. Wenban-Smith & R.T. Hosfield (ed’s) Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Solent River: 99-110.
www.rdg.ac.uk /secondarycontexts/arch-mod9-refs.htm   (1252 words)

  
 Specialists to Malta & Gozo | Discover Malta & Gozo
The area in front of the church served as a graveyard during the Seige of 1565.
The Xl Century Siculo-Norman Cathedral was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693.
The present Cathedral was built by Lorenzo Gafa four years later and is believed to stand on the site originally occupied by the house of Publius, the Roman Governor at the time of St. PaulÂ’s stay on the Island (AD60), who eventually became the first Bishop of Malta.
www.maltatravelnet.com /discover_malta_churches.htm   (675 words)

  
 CenturyOne Alphabetical Listing and Title Index
The Archaeology of Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume 1
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume 2
www.centuryone.com /author2.html   (434 words)

  
 Black Seminoles
"That's why Peliklakaha is so significant." The dig could establish a new focus in archaeology on cultures that combine African and Native American influences, said Terry Weik, the UF graduate student heading the excavation.
In the late 1600s, African slaves who escaped Carolina plantations and dodged slave hunters through dangerous Indian country gained freedom by crossing the St. Mary's River, an international border that divided Spanish and British colonial territory.
So many fled here that, in 1693, the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine began freeing the runaway slaves if they agreed to convert to Catholicism and protect the northern border from the British, according to Jane Landers, author of Black Society in Spanish Florida.
history.jupiter.fl.us /HistoryWeb/Seminoles.cfm   (1962 words)

  
 Hidden Argentina
Its most important piece is the mummy of a body from the Inca´s period which is in perfect conditions and has been found on the summit of El Toro Mt. The mummy was found by an expedition of the Andean Club Mercedario in 1964 and rescued one month later.
This was the starting point for the development of the archaeology in San Juan.
On June 13th 1562, Don Jufré de Loaysa y Montese founded "San Juan de la Frontera o Provincia de los Huarpes", (the Huarpes were the native inhabitants of the city) The city is located 650 m above sea level in a fertile oasis surrounded by the Andean range.
www.amazonadventures.com /hiddenargentina.htm   (1579 words)

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