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Heritage and the Sea

Volume 2: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th–18th centuries)

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  • Highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding, wood provenance and timber trade
  • Provides a historical-archaeological analysis of Iberian shipwreck sites
  • Applies Geographic Information Systems and Databases (GIS) to the study of shipwrecks

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

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About this book

This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources (especially timber), mostly oak (Quercus spp.) and Pine (Pinus spp.). The chapters are framed in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary line of research that integrates history, Geographic Information Sciences, underwater archaeology, dendrochronology and wood provenance techniques. This line of research was developed during the ForSEAdiscovery project, which had a great impact in the academic and scientific world and brought together experts from Europe and America. The volumes deliver a state-of-the-art review of the latest lines of research related to Iberian maritime history and archaeology and their developing interdisciplinary interaction with dendroarchaeology. This synthesis combines ananalysis of historical sources, the systematic study of wreck-remains and material culture related to Iberian seafaring from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and the application of earth sciences, including dendrochronology. The set can be used as a manual or work guide for experts and students, and will also be an interesting read for non-experts interested in the subject.

 

Volume 2 focuses on approaches to the study of shipwrecks including a synthesis of dendro-archaeological results, current interdisciplinary case studies and the specialist study of artillery and anchors.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    Ana Crespo Solana

  • História, Territórios e Comunidades, Center for Functional Ecology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Lisboa, Portugal

    Filipe Castro

  • Institute of Education and Humanities, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, Ceredigion, UK

    Nigel Nayling

About the editors

Dr. Ana Crespo Solana is a Professor and Researcher for the Spanish National Research Coucil, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Dr. Filipe Castro is a researcher at História, Territórios e Comunidades, Center for Functional Ecology, Lisboa, Portugal.



Prof. Nigel Nayling holds the Chair in Archaeology at the Institute of Education and Humanities at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heritage and the Sea

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th–18th centuries)

  • Editors: Ana Crespo Solana, Filipe Castro, Nigel Nayling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86464-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86463-7Published: 16 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86466-8Published: 16 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86464-4Published: 15 March 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geography, general, Archaeology, Computer Applications, Cultural Heritage, Anthropology

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