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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Rincón Astrolabe Shipwreck
  name:
    name part: Garcia Ortiz, Gustavo Adolfo, 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Castro, Luis Filipe Vieira de
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: On 30 December 1986, a local fisherman incidentally discovered the remains of a seventeenth-century merchantman off the coast of Rincón, a small municipality on Puerto Rico's west coast. Some days later, he and some acquaintances extracted objects from the site and stored them in a nearby restaurant. The assemblage of artifacts recovered included, among other items, pins, scissors, ordnance, pewter ware, woodworking tools, a myriad of concretions and a nautical astrolabe. It is from the last that the wreck site took its name. The operation continued for months until local authorities, alerted by a member of the salvage group, issued a cease and desist order. At that point, the whole affair entered a legal process that on the summer of 2005 had not reached its conclusion. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, the author presents the story of the shipwreck from the moment it was found until the court ruled regarding ownership of the artifacts. Since this was the first time ownership of a shipwreck was debated in Puerto Rican courts in recent history, this gives the reader an idea of how legal precedence was established concerning the island's submerged cultural resources. Second, based on what was popularly perceived to be the site's most remarkable find, astudy was developed on the sea or mariner's astrolabe, a navigation instrument that played a fundamental role in the process of European maritime expansion during the late fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reader of this text will learn that, during the fifteenth century, Portuguese navigators saw the need to gradually depart from the traditional Mediterranean navigation technique known as "dead reckoning." As their explorations along the West African coast forced them to sail far into the Atlantic Ocean for prolonged periods, a new method was developed that consisted of measuring the angle of certain heavenly bodies above the horizon in order to determine the latitude of the observer with …
  note: by Gustavo Adolfo Garcia Otriz.
  note: "Major Subject: Anthropology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 14, 2006.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. A. Texas A&M University 2005.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Navigation Instruments
  subject:
    topic: Puerto Rico
  subject:
    topic: Astrolabe
  subject:
    topic: Shipwreck
  subject:
    topic: Caribbean
  subject:
    topic: Nautical Astronomy
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3289
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 060428
    record change date: 20151103063935.0
    record identifier: in00002122720