| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Opening Salvo -- On Celebrating Piracy: But Should We? / Charles R. Ewen -- Pirate Swag: Material Culture Studies -- The Stories They Tell: Recent Finds from Queen Anne's Revenge/La Concorde (1718) / Kimberly P. Kenyon -- Sail Bags and Black Flags: Identifying Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Pirates / Jessie Cragg and Michael Thomin -- "Running a Rig": Pirates and Archaeology in Video Games / Coy J. Idol and Katherine D. Thomas -- The Material Culture of Pirate Wrecks and Lairs: A Reflection of Colonial Archaeology through Multicultural Assemblages from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Jean Soulat -- Transatlantic Piracy -- Casting Piracy a Line: An Examination of the Influence of Piracy in the Archaeological Record of Two New England Fishing Settlements / Megan Rhodes Victor -- The Archaeology of Lundy Pirates: A Case Study of Material Culture / Patrick J. Boyle -- The Mystery of Morgan's Island: Archaeological Insights into a Possible Pirate Wreck at Somerset, Bermuda / Bradley Rodgers and Jason T. Raupp -- Pirates of the Caribbean and Terra Firma -- What's to Become of Me?: Pirates and Refugees in the Archaeological Landscape of the Virgin Islands / Kenneth S. Wild -- Pirates at Grand Case Bay, St. Martin (French West Indies): Interpreting Archaeological Evidence from a Late Seventeenth-Century Settlement / Alexandre Coulaud, Nathalie Sellier-S'gard, and Martijn van den Bel -- Mysterious Tortuga Island, Republic of Haiti / Laurent Pavlidis -- The Pirate of Cotinga Island: The History and Archaeology of a Mysterious Shipwreck in the South of Brazil / Geraldo J. S. Hostin -- Buccaneers and Harpooners of the Miskito Coast / Lynn B. Harris -- Piracy in the Indian Ocean -- Pirate Lairs in Ambodifototra Bay (Sainte-Marie Island, Madagascar)?: Traces of Fortifications and Camps in Archives and Archaeological Remains / John de Bry and Jean Soulat -- The Speaker (1702) Pirate Shipwreck on the East Side of Mauritius: Review of Archaeological Data and Research Perspectives / Jean Soulat, Yann von Arnim, and Patrick Liz' -- Parting Shot -- Unpacking the Dead Man's Chest / Russell K. Skowronek |
| Summary |
"A global approach to better understanding piracy through archaeology Featuring discussions of newly discovered evidence from South America, England, New England, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, Dead Man's Chest presents diverse approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence. The case studies in this volume include medieval and post-medieval piracy in the Bristol Channel, illicit trade in seventeenth-century fishing stations in Maine, and the guerrilla tactics of nineteenth-century privateers and coastal bandits off the Gulf of Mexico Coast. Contributors reveal the story of a Dutch privateer who saved a ship from a storm only to take control of it, partnerships between pirates and Indigenous inhabitants along the Miskito coast, and new findings on the Speaker-one of the first pirate ships to be archaeologically investigated-in Madagascar. As well as covering shipwrecks and other topics traditionally associated with piracy, several chapters look at pirate facilities on land and cultural interactions with nearby communities as reflected through archival documentation. As a whole, the volume highlights various ways to identify piracy and smuggling in the archaeological record, while encouraging readers to question what they think they know about pirates"-- Provided by publisher |
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"This book presents a variety of approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2023) |
| Subject |
Underwater archaeology.
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Coastal archaeology.
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Pirates -- History
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underwater archaeology.
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HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
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Coastal archaeology
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Pirates
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Underwater archaeology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Skowronek, Russell K., editor.
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Ewen, Charles R., 1956- editor.
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| LC no. |
2023012268 |
| ISBN |
0813070511 |
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9780813072852 |
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0813072859 |
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9780813070513 |
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