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Adventures in archaeology : the wreck of the Orca II and other explorations

Title
Adventures in archaeology : the wreck of the Orca II and other explorations / P.J. Capelotti.
Author
Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph), 1960-
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]

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Description
xvii, 244 pages; 23 cm
Summary
This collection of essays, written over nearly 25 years, traces the development of the archaeologies of shoreline, sea, air, and space, to reveal how the expansion of human culture has created unique archaeological signatures written on the global landscape, and how the cultural history of humans can be read from these material transformations.
Subject
  • Jaws (Motion picture : 1975)
  • Underwater archaeology
  • Coastal archaeology
  • Space archaeology
  • Aircraft accidents > History
  • Aircraft accidents
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface: Time and the river -- Acknowledgements -- Shoreline and shallows archaeology -- The last logbook of the Orca II -- The throwaway society in the mudflats -- Airship underwater: in search of the USS Akron -- The archaeological shorelines of the high north -- Transoceanic archaeology -- The elusive island -- The origins of the raft -- Thor Heyerdahl and the theory of the archaeological raft -- Eric de Bisschop and the response to Kon-Tiki -- Aeronautical archaeology -- The airship hangar at the top of the world -- Buried treasure -- A rock in the fuselage -- The TB-3 on Rudolf Island -- Aerospace archaeology -- Space, the final (archaeological) frontier -- Surveying Fermi's paradox, mapping Dyson's sphere -- Measuring the mountains of the moon -- Mobile artifacts in the solar system and beyond -- Epilog: Back down to earth, in search of Pedro.
Call Number
JFE 18-9581
ISBN
  • 9780813064840
  • 0813064848
LCCN
2018002630
OCLC
1022074841
Author
Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph), 1960- author.
Title
Adventures in archaeology : the wreck of the Orca II and other explorations / P.J. Capelotti.
Publisher
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-9581
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