Underwater and maritime archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena.

• Superior document: One world archaeology series ; 56
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Leshikar-Denton, Margaret E.; Luna Erreguerena, Pilar.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: One world archaeology ; 56.
• Physical Description: 316 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

The foundations of underwater and maritime archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean / Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena -- The submerged cultural heritage in Mexico / Pilar Luna Erreguerena -- Nuestra Senora del Juncal : her story and her shipwreck / Patricia Meehan H. and Flor Trejo Rivera -- Nautical charts and measurement systems of the 17th century / Carmen Rojas Sandoval -- Riddles in the dark : human behaviours in the interpretation of a 16th-century wreck / Vera Moya Sordo -- An 18th-century British shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico / Roberto Enrique Galindo Dominguez -- Evidence of early inhabitants in submerged caves in Yucatan, Mexico / Arturo H. Gonzalez Gonzalez ... [et al.] -- Mayan mortuary deposits in the cenotes of Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico / Carmen Rojas Sandoval ... [et al.] -- Maritime archaeology in Argentina at the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia / Dolores Elkin --

The role of Benthic communities and environmental agents in the formation of underwater archaeological sites / Ricardo Bastida, Monica Grosso and Dolores Elkin -- Navigation in the Rio de la Plata / Antonio Lezama -- Bermuda's shipwreck heritage / Edward Cecil Harris -- The sinking of the slave ship Trouvadore : linking the past to the present / Nigel Sadler -- The Cayman Islands' experience: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Della A Scott-Ireton -- The Jamaican version : public archaeology and the protection of the underwater cultural heritage / Dorrick E. Gray -- Port Royal, Jamaica : archaeological past, present and future / Donny L. Hamilton -- Preservation of waterlogged archaeological glass using polymers / C. Wayne Smith -- Development of maritime archaeological tourism using the wreck of the English SS Mediator in Curacao / Wil Nagelkerken ... [et al.] -- The historical anchorage of Kralendijk, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles / Wil Nagelkerken and Raymond Hayes.