Author: Robert I. NesmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Coinage of the First Mint of the Americas at Mexico City, 1536-1572
Author: Robert I. NesmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Coinage of the First Mint of the Americas at Mexico City, 1536-1572
Author: Robert I. NesmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Bibliography of Latin America and the Caribbean,the Hilton Library
Author: Ronald HiltonPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810812758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
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Artifacts
Author: Charles R. EwenPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759100220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Archaeologist's Toolkit is an integrated set of seven volumes designed to teach novice archaeologists and students the basics of doing archaeological fieldwork, analysis, and presentation. Students are led through the process of designing a study, doing survey work, excavating, properly working with artifacts and biological remains, curating their materials, and presenting findings to various audiences. The volumes-written by experienced field archaeologists-are full of practical advice, tips, case studies, and illustrations to help the reader. All of this is done with careful attention to promoting a conservation ethic and an understanding of the legal and practical environment of contemporary American cultural resource laws and regulations. The Toolkit is an essential resource for anyone working in the field and ideal for training archaeology students in classrooms and field schools.
The Gold and Silver of Spanish America, C. 1572-1648
Author: Engel SluiterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Mapping of New Spain
Author: Barbara E. MundyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226550978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these maps and traces the reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization. "Its contribution to its specific field is both significant and original. . . . It is a pure pleasure to read." —Sabine MacCormack, Isis "Mundy has done a fine job of balancing the artistic interpretation of the maps with the larger historical context within which they were drawn. . . . This is an important work." —John F. Schwaller, Sixteenth Century Journal "This beautiful book opens a Pandora's box in the most positive sense, for it provokes the reconsideration of several long-held opinions about Spanish colonialism and its effects on Native American culture." —Susan Schroeder, American Historical Review
Encyclopedia of Western Atlantic Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure
Author: Victoria SandzPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078642902X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreck's name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.
The Spanish Treasure Fleets
Author: Timothy R WaltonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 156164899X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The story of the expeditions of Spanish explorers told through the history of the first American currency: pieces of eight.
Doors to Latin America
Author: Alva Curtis WilgusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Oceans Odyssey 3
Author: Sean A. KingsleyPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782971491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world’s first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. At a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artefacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle. The wreck is interpreted as the Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, a small Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622 Tierra Firme fleet returning to Seville from Venezuela’s Pearl Coast when lost in a hurricane. Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreck and its artefact collection – today owned and curated by Odyssey Marine Exploration – ranging from gold bars to silver coins, pearls, ceramics, beads, glass wares, astrolabes, tortoiseshell, animal bones and seeds. The Tortugas shipwreck reflects the daily life of trade with the Americas at the end of the Golden Age of Spain and presents the capabilities of deep-sea robotics as tools for precision archaeological excavation.