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Iron and Steamship Archaeology: Success and Failure on the SS Xantho

By Michael McCarthy (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-0-306-46365-5, 978-0-306-47190-2, 0-306-47190-6, 0-306-46365-2
DOI
10.1007/b109955
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12569505 bytes)
Series
The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology
Edition
1
Pages
234\240
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Archaeology; Anthropology; History

Description

In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site. This relatively straightforward assignment turned into a long-term research program for applying maritime archaeology to the conservation of iron-hulled wrecks.

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