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Ghost galleon : the discovery and archaeology of the San Juanillo on the shores of Baja California / Edward P. Von der Porten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Von der Porten, Edward P., author.
- Series:
- Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
- Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Underwater archaeology--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).
- Underwater archaeology.
- Shipwrecks--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).
- Shipwrecks.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Galleons--Philippines--Manila.
- Galleons.
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--Antiquities.
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "An inside view of how archaeologists, working like detectives at an ancient crime scene, carefully assemble the evidence that allows scientific reconstruction of events from the distant past. In a series of expeditions from 1999 to 2016, Von der Porten and his dedicated team, in association with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), assembled scores of artifacts, conducted countless hours of archival and other research, and finally concluded that they had located the buried remains of the cargo from the sixteenth century Manila galleon 'San Juanillo' on the shores of Baja California"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Discovery
- Dreams of Asian riches
- The first expedition
- Understanding the ship
- Back to the beaches
- Widening the circle of scholars
- New methods, many discoveries
- The early Manila galleons
- Many insights, strange byways
- Following up, looking for breakthroughs
- Steady work exposing the secrets
- Trying conventional techniques
- Stories from the porcelains
- Steps forward, steps backward
- Building the Manila galleons
- Surprises and successes
- Twenty years and still searching
- The tragic voyage.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-768-X
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