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Title

Oceans odyssey 4 : pottery from the Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida : a merchant vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet / edited by Greg Stemm, Sean Kingsley & Ellen Gerth.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Stemm, Greg
• Kingsley, Sean A.
• Gerth, Ellen C.

Description

xvii, 259 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Odyssey Marine Exploration reports ; 4

Uniform Title

Odyssey marine exploration reports ; 4.

Alternative Title

• Oceans odyssey four
• Pottery from the Tortugas shipwreck, Straits of Florida

Subject

• Underwater archaeology > Dry Tortugas
• Shipwrecks > Dry Tortugas
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Dry Tortugas
• Material culture > Spain > History > 17th century
• Pottery, Spanish > History > 17th century
• Pottery, Colonial > History > 17th century
• Tableware > Spain > History > 17th century
• Dry Tortugas (Fla.) > Antiquities
• Florida, Straits of > Antiquities
• Spain > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / by Ivor Noël Hume -- Introduction / by Greg Stemm & Sean A. Kingsley -- The deep-sea Tortugas shipwreck, Florida (1622) : the ceramic tablewares / Sean A. Kingsley -- Papal plates & propaganda on the deep-sea Tortugas shipwreck, Florida (1622) / Sean A. Kingsley -- Spanish olive jars from the Tortugas shipwreck, Florida (1622) / Sean A. Kingsley, Jenette Flow, Ellen Gerth & Claudio lozano Guerra-Librero -- The deep-sea Tortugas shipwreck, Florida (1622) : Afro-Caribbean colonoware & maritime slavery / Ellen Gerth & Sean A. Kingsley -- Chemical analysis of pottery from the Tortugas shipwreck (1622) by Plasma Spectrometry (ICPS) / Michael J. Hughes -- Clay tobacco pipes from the Tortugas shipwreck, Florida (1622) / J. Byron Sudbury & Ellen Gerth -- Rome in Spain, Spain in the Americas : amphoras, olive jars & the economics of long-distance trade / Sean A. Kingsley, Michael Decker & Ellen Gerth.

ISBN

• 9781782977100
• 1782977104

LCCN

• 2014018863
• 60001944952

OCLC

• 880809005
• 2014018863
• SCSB-5760992

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries