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Author Leshikar-Denton, Margaret E

Title Underwater and maritime archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena
Published Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series One world archaeology series ; 56
One world archaeology ; 56.
Contents The foundations of underwater and maritime archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean / Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena -- The submerged cultural heritage in Mexico / Pilar Luna Erreguerena -- Nuestra Señora del Juncal : her story and her shipwreck / Patricia Meehan H. and Flor Trejo Rivera -- Nautical charts and measurement systems of the 17th century / Carmen Rojas Sandoval -- Riddles in the dark : human behaviours in the interpretation of a 16th-century wreck / Vera Moya Sordo -- An 18th-century British shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico / Roberto Enrique Galindo Domínguez -- Evidence of early inhabitants in submerged caves in Yucatan, Mexico / Arturo H. González González [and others] -- Mayan mortuary deposits in the cenotes of Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico / Carmen Rojas Sandoval [and others] -- Maritime archaeology in Argentina at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología / Dolores Elkin
The role of Benthic communities and environmental agents in the formation of underwater archaeological sites / Ricardo Bastida, Mónica Grosso and Dolores Elkin -- Navigation in the Río de la Plata / Antonio Lezama -- Bermuda's shipwreck heritage / Edward Cecil Harris -- The sinking of the slave ship Trouvadore : linking the past to the present / Nigel Sadler -- The Cayman Islands' experience: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Della A Scott-Ireton -- The Jamaican version : public archaeology and the protection of the underwater cultural heritage / Dorrick E. Gray -- Port Royal, Jamaica : archaeological past, present and future / Donny L. Hamilton -- Preservation of waterlogged archaeological glass using polymers / C. Wayne Smith -- Development of maritime archaeological tourism using the wreck of the English SS Mediator in Curaçao / Wil Nagelkerken [and others] -- The historical anchorage of Kralendijk, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles / Wil Nagelkerken and Raymond Hayes
Summary Case studies written primarily by Latin American and Caribbean archaeologists demonstrate exciting and cutting edge research, conservation, site preservation, and interpretation of underwater and maritime archaeology in the region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Underwater archaeology -- Latin America
Underwater archaeology -- Caribbean Area
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Cultural policy
Underwater archaeology
SUBJECT Latin America -- Cultural policy
Caribbean Area -- Cultural policy
Subject Caribbean Area
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Luna Erreguerena, Pilar
LC no. 2008021109
ISBN 9781598747478
1598747479
1315416085
9781315416083
1315416093
9781315416090