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COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF LEAD SHEATHING FROM THE EMANUEL POINT SHIPWRECKS IN PENSACOLA BAY, FLORIDA
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2012
Abstract
Samples of lead sheathing recovered from the Emanuel Point wrecks, two sixteenth-century colonial Iberian vessels, underwent a series of analytical methodologies to determine the lead's original provenience. Historical evidence suggested, but did not confirm, the probability that the lead used to protect these vessels originally came from Spain. Prior to this thesis, it was theorized that a New World source of lead may have provided colonial vessels with replacement sheathing, had they required such repairs. Experimental archaeology, x-ray fluorescence, and multiple-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry confirmed that the lead originated from a mine known as Mina La Sultana located in southern Iberia, and that this sheathing technique could survive the duration of a transatlantic voyage.
Details
- Title
- COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF LEAD SHEATHING FROM THE EMANUEL POINT SHIPWRECKS IN PENSACOLA BAY, FLORIDA
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090861306600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida