Oceans odyssey 4 : pottery from the Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida : a merchant vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet /
"The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated 117-ton Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2014.
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| Series: | Odyssey marine exploration reports ;
4. |
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| Summary: | "The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated 117-ton Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, the ship's Seville dominated tablewares are a revealing index of unchanged cultural tastes and continued production at the end of Spain's Golden Age. For cooking the crew relied on Afro-Caribbean colonoware, possibly the first recorded archaeological evidence of maritime slavery in the Americas fleets. Two tin-glazed plates painted with papal coat of arms--the Keys of Heaven and triple crown--may have been used by Spain-bound clergymen from the newly formed Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 259 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781782977100 1782977104 |