8SL17: Natural Site - Formation Processes of a Multiple - Component Underwater Site in Florida: Submerged Cultural Resources Special Report

• Main Author: Murphy, Larry E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: the Digital Archaeological Record
• Subjects: Spanish Coins; Spanish Plate Fleet Shipwrecks; Chinese Porcelain; Site Evaluation / Testing; Water-related; Shipwreck; Ceramic; Chipped Stone; Fauna; Shell; Prehistory; Cultural Resource; Underwater Archaeology; Underwater Archeology; Radiometric Dating; DELFTWARE; Douglass Beach Site; Terrestrial Site; PALYNOLOGY ANALYSIS INCLUDED; Geochemical Analysis; Douglass; Hutchinson Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8S1811K_meta$v=1320345458367

In the 1960s, commercial treasure salvors of 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet shipwrecks off the east coast of Florida encountered prehistoric artifacts and extinct animal fossils. At first the salvors believed the material to be wreck-related, but later examination by archeologists indicated it was not ass...