The Archaeology of Vernacular Watercraft [Paperback]

This volume presents multiple idiographic, archaeological studies of vernacular watercraft from North America and the Caribbean. Rather than attempt to synthesize all vernacular types, this volume focuses on ship construction data recovered through archaeological investigations that has been used to make inferences about culture. This collection of case studies, including many examples from cultural resource management and graduate student theses, presents a thematic exploration of cultural adaptation as expressed through ship construction.

Foreward.? Mark Staniforth.- Chapter 1. Amanda M. Evans (Tesla Offshore, LLC) and Sheli O. Smith (PAST Foundation), Vernacular Watercraft: In Concept and In Practice .- Chapter 2. Amanda M. Evans (Tesla Offshore, LLC), Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Vernacular Boats as Environmental Adaptations.- Chapter 3.? Roger Smith, Ph.D. (Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research), The Caymanian Catboat.- Chapter 4. Samuel Turner, Ph.D. (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program), The Bergant?n, a Little Known Craft from the Early Spanish Period in the New World.- Chapter 5. Della Scott-Ireton, Ph.D. (Florida Public Archaeology Network) and Christopher Horrell, Ph.D. (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement), Expressions of a Dying Tradition: Vernacular Watercraft in Apalachicola, Florida..- Chapter 6. Chuck Meide (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program), Some Assembly Required: The Analysis and Reassembly of the Larkin Boat, a Vernacular Watercraft Recovered from Gregory Mill Creek in Liberty County, Florida.- Chapter 7. Melanie Damour (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), Born on the Bayou: Louisianas Vernacular Constructed Watercraft.- Chapter 8. ?Bradley A. Rodgers, Ph.D. (East Carolina University), and Nathan Richards, Ph.D. (East Carolina University), The Watercraft of Castle Isl“2