The complete technical and scientific report on one of the most important shipwrecks in North American history . . . In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of the La Salle's La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establis…
Introduction. background / James E. Bruseth -- Archival research / John de Bry -- Excavation inside a cofferdam / Layne Hedrick, Amy Mitchell-Cook, and James E. Bruseth -- Conservation / Donny L. Hamilton, Helen Dewolf, and Peter D. Fix -- PART II: Ship design, organiztion and h…
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. This book marries the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased.