Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvi, 264 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

1. Underwater archaeology
2. Shipwrecks
3. Pottery, Spanish
4. Spain > History, Naval
5. Spain > Antiquities

Genre/Form

1. Naval history

Contents

1. Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Spanish Seaborne Trade with the Americas -- Ch. 3. The Shipwrecks and Their Pottery Collections. The St. John's Bahamas Wreck (pre-1550). The Padre Island Wrecks of 1554. The Spanish Armada of 1588. A Late Sixteenth-Century Wreck in Bermuda. The San Pedro (1596). The San Antonio (1621). The Atocha (1622). The Concepcion (1641). Other Seventeenth-Century Wrecks. The 1715 Plate Fleet. The Tolosa and Guadalupe (1724). The 1733 Fleet. El Nuevo Constante (1768). The Elizabeth (1839). Notes on Illustrations and Recording -- Ch. 4. The Olive Jar. Terminology, Origins, and Contents. Sixteenth-Century Types. Seventeenth-Century Types. Seventeenth-Century Rims. Rim Marks. Flat-Bottomed Olive Jars. Mid-Seventeenth-Century Types. Late Seventeenth-Century Types. Eighteenth-Century Types. Late Eighteenth-Century Types. Manufacture Techniques. Rim Manufacture. Summary of Olive Jar Rim Styles. Sealing. Contents, Coverings, and Stowage. Volume Relationships -- Ch. 5. Columbia Plain.
2. Sixteenth-Century Types. Late Sixteenth-Century Types. Seventeenth-Century Types. Eighteenth-Century Types -- Ch. 6. Other Pottery Types. Tinajas. Coarse Earthenwares. American Aboriginal Pottery. Majolica -- Ch. 7. Conclusion -- Glossary of Spanish and Technical Terms Used.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.