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

• Main Author: McCarthy, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Mechanical engineering.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Mechanical Engineering.; History, general.

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 assig...

Table of Contents:

• Xantho and Broadhurst in context
• Xantho—The transformations
• The wreck examined
• Site formation processes
• The investigation continues in the archives
• Excavations at the site
• Excavation in the laboratory
• Conclusion.