
Название: La Belle: The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Vessel of New World Colonization
Автор: James E. Bruseth (editor), Amy A. Borgens (editor), Bradford M. Jones (editor), Eric D. Ray (editor)
Издательство: Texas A&M University Press
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 916
Размер: 149.5 Мб
Язык: English
In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle’s La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River that landed instead along today’s Matagorda Bay in Texas. During 1996–1997, the Commission uncovered the ship’s remains under the direction of archaeologist James E. Bruseth and employing a team of archaeologists and volunteers. Amid the shallow waters of Matagorda Bay, a steel cofferdam was constructed around the site, creating one of the most complex nautical archaeological excavations ever attempted in North America and allowing the archaeologists to excavate the sunken wreck much as if it were located on dry land.