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BOEM, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, has a very nice site with an interactive Virtual Archaeology Museum.  |
3-D Interactive Model of 15377 Shipwreck.
Source: BOEM (See link below.)
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Here is what BOEM says.
In the course of oil and gas exploration, BOEM has discovered many amazing shipwrecks. Each shipwreck tells a story of our shared history and provides a mystery to uncover. BOEM would like to share these mysteries with you by providing access to new 3D modeling never before possible using video publicly available from NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research...
Freatured shipwrecks include the 15377, Monterey A, Monterey B, Monterey C and Blake Ridge shipwrecks.
The photo above shows one view of the interactive 3-D model of the 15377 shipwreck,.
https://www.boem.gov/environment/virtual-archaeology-museum
Thanks to DJ for the link.
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Dueling got an early start in colonial America. On June 18, 1621, there was a duel at Plymouth Rock.
… two of Steven Hopkins' indentured servants got into an argument of unknown origins. The duel resulted in both Edward Doty and Edward Leister wounded, which caused Hopkins to fear he could lose the labors of two good men. To prevent future such behavior, the men were "hog-tied," with their feet tied to their heads for 24 painful hours...
It appears that there was a duel at Jamestown in 1624.
In 1996, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a young European male who had been shot in the lower leg, causing severe damage leading to his death. At the time, William Kelso, director of archaeological research at Jamestown Redicoversy, said it might be America's first unsolved murder... But in 2013 Kelso's team discovered the victim was George Harrison, who was shot by Richard Stephens, a Jamestown merchant...
The two above quotes are from Dueling in Colonial America, by John T. Trussell as published in the Fall 2019 SAR Magazine.
Don't you think the comment about the "America's first unsolved murder" is a gross overgeneralization? That would seem to suggest that the native Americans never committed a murder, or if they did, they always knew or found out who did it.
I almost expected the other party to the George Harrison duel to be Ringo Star.
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Researcher at the University of Bonn investigated bones from the 1,400-year-old Maya mass grave of Uxul
Several years ago, Maya archaeologists from the University of Bonn found the bones of about 20 people at the bottom of a water reservoir in the former Maya city of Uxul, in what is now Mexico. They had apparently been killed and dismembered about 1,400 years ago. Did these victims come from Uxul or other regions of the Maya Area? Dr. Nicolaus Seefeld, who heads the project that is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the University of Bonn, is now one step further: A strontium isotope analysis by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) showed that some of the dead grew up at least 95 miles (150 kilometers) from Uxul...
The results of the isotope analysis show that most of the victims grew up at least 95 miles (150 kilometers) from Uxul in the southern lowlands, in what is now Guatemala. "However, at least one adult and also one infant were local residents from Uxul," says the researcher. They were apparently mostly people of high social status, as eight of the individuals had elaborate jade tooth jewelry or engravings in their incisors...
https://www.uni-bonn.de/news/311-2019
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The years fly by. I remember sitting down to my first post of 2019 and thinking about that. It seemed like last week. Now we are getting close to the end of the year.
As I look back at the most read posts of the year, the numbers show what you would probably expect - detectorists pay a lot of attention to the weather and interest in Treasure Coast metal detecting rises and falls very much with changes in the weather. The most read posts of 2019 were posted in January, February and September.
You might not remember now, but we had some good erosion back in January. There were also some finds reported that stimulated a lot of interest back then. One of those was as suspicious as some of the finds made on Oak Island. You might remember what was reported as a find of an Incan funerary mask. There seemed to be a lot of controversy about that one. Click here to see that post.
I think you will all remember what happened in September. Dorian was heading towards us, but after all of the panic and preparations, stayed well off-shore. It looked for a while like we were going to get a direct hit by a major hurricane. Despite the improvements in weather science, they missed it on Dorian, and the Treasure Coast missed getting hit by a very dangerous storm.
It isn't unusual for January and February to be good metal detecting months. Other than after the occasional hurricane or tropical storm, November through February are often the best times for metal detecting on the Treasure Coast. That, of course, is also when many of the snow birds are in town.
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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
