The Nauti Archaeologist: Recent Episodes
Lauren Coontz
Join your host, Lauren, as we discuss, explore, and delve into the ocean and the forgotten locations of the world looking at shipwrecks and the lost cities of the past, plus some contemporary implications of what these sites mean to us today in the modern.
Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle was an arrogant monk-turned-adventurer (this sounds like the start of a D&D campaign) responsible for most of the French expansion in the Great Lakes area and along the Mississippi River. Of course, as an adventurer, he's used to loss, but his final expedition was particularly plagued by shipwrecks (multiple), snake bites, prickly pear incidents, and Indigenous nations. Tough break.
Sources:
https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/la-belle/the-exhibit
https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/la-belle/the-exhibit/excavation-and-preservation
https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/
Dr. Jim Bruseth
La Louisiane, une affaire d’État : Récits de Jean-Baptiste Minet et d’Henri Joustel, témoins de Cavelier de La Salle (1684-1687) https://research-ebsco-com.ezproxy.uvu.edu/linkprocessor/plink?id=a4152ae8-adaf-349f-aab5-e1caede6c536
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cavelier_de_la_salle_rene_robert_1E.html
Dr. Jim Bruseth. Personal Interview. 2024.
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Before betraying the burgeoning United States of America to the British for a new rank and some new digs, Benedict Arnold bought the Continental Army some much needed time to recover from the previous season of fighting during the year of 1776. A brilliant tactician, Arnold met the British on Lake Champlain at the Battle of Valcour Island -- arguably America's first naval encounter. Unstoppable force, meet immovable object. Neither had a good time.
Sources:
- 3D model of Spitfire: https://skfb.ly/oIBpu
- LCMM.org's Spitfire
- https://www.wamc.org/news/2024-05-09/efforts-to-raise-a-revolutionary-war-gunboat-from-lake-champlain-discussed
- https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/valcour-island
- https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/fort-ticonderoga-1775
- https://www.americanheritage.com/benedict-arnold-aftermath-treason
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Due to a series of events happening in my personal life, this week has been difficult to work on the podcast. Don't worry! This isn't permanent, and we'll be back next week with an episode on the Revolutionary War-era gunboat: The Spitfire, with Chris Sabick of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
In the meantime, check them out! Don't sweat, we'll put these links in the show notes for next week too.
3D model of the Spitfire
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Spitfire page
One of the oldest shipwrecks in the world, the Uluburun Shipwreck, sometimes looped together with the Cape Gelidonya wreck, is in a league of her own. Scientists conducted over 22,000 dives to the wreck between 1984 and 1994, collecting thousands of artifacts that give us a glimpse of Bronze Age merchant trade and what a ship laden with gifts fit for a queen looks like 3,000 years later. Joined again by Dr. Jim Delgado, we look into the impact the Uluburun wreck has had on the archaeological sphere since its discovery and excavation.Let's get wet, nerds.Sources, of course: https://www.worldhistory.org/Uluburun_Shipwreck/ https://nauticalarch.org/projects/uluburun-late-bronze-age-shipwreck-excavation/ Aruz, Joan, Kim Benzel, and Jean M. Evans, et al. Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. [Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009]. "The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade." Cemal Pulak. New York New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art Yale University Press. 289-305. [https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/beyond-babylon-art-trade-and-diplomacy-in-the-second-millenium-bc] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/science/shipwreck-bronze-age-israel.html James P. Delgado, Ph.D., RPA. Personal Interview. 2024. Follow us on socials! Thems the rules kids: Insta & Twitter: @nautipodcasttiktok & youtube: @nautipodgmail: thenautipod@gmail.com
Want to learn about roof tiles? What if I told you there were gargoyles (grotesques), samurai, ninjas, ninja samurai, and samurai ghosts involved? Good, now that I've got your attention, Dr. Mike Perrin, ARIUA, discusses the Hatsushima Island shipwreck, and its possible place on the Tokugawa Timeline.
Time to get wet, nerds.
Sources:
- http://www.themua.org/collections/files/original/6ce8d871c6d2ca7a5920ff46a8e88dff.pdf
- https://libraryguides.binghamton.edu/japanese/Edo
- https://www.worldhistory.org/Edo_Castle/
- https://www.japanpitt.pitt.edu/glossary/genroku-period
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The Goonies, 1985, is a fictional story about several local kids who find a pirate ship full of treasure in a sea cave, almost frozen in time. Inspired by the shipwreck rumors on the Northwest Oregon coast, seemingly confirmed by the artifacts washing ashore, no one was aware of the true story – the political maneuvering, powerful religious figures, bribery, smuggling, a trial, and a daring escape from port that doomed the Manila Galleon, Santo Cristo de Burgos, to its final resting place in the Pacific.
Sources for this episode:
- https://www.philippineyachtcharter.com/cruising_weather.php
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200318135926id_/https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=anth_fac
- National Geographic Drain the Oceans episode
- https://www.tideschart.com/Philippines/
- https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/24-1_jones.pdf
- https://oceanmotion.org/html/background/ocean-in-motion.htm#:~:text=The%20net%20transport%20of%20water,movement%20changes%20with%20increasing%20depth
- https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1182&context=anth_fac
- https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/historic-historique/events/17000126-en.php
- https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1614
- https://www.pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/orphan-tsunami-1700-japanese-clues-a-parent-earthquake-north-america#:~:text=Reports-,The%20orphan%20tsunami%20of%201700%E2%80%94Japanese%20clues%20to,parent%20earthquake%20in%20North%20America&text=A%20puzzling%20tsunami%20entered%20Japanese,had%20set%20off%20the%20waves.
- https://archive.org/details/historyoforegong01lyma/page/n11/mode/2up
- Stafford, O. F. “The Wax of Nehalem Beach.” The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society 9, no. 1 (1908): 24–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20609760.
- Scott S. Williams, Curt D. Peterson, Mitch Marken, and Richard Rogers. “The Beeswax Wreck of Nehalem: A Lost Manila Galleon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 119, no. 2 (2018): 192–209. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.119.2.0192.
- Cameron La Follette, Douglas Deur, and Esther González. “The Galleon Cargo: Accounts in the Colonial Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 119, no. 2 (2018): 250–81. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.119.2.0250.
- Cameron La Follette, Douglas Deur, and Esther González. “The Galleon’s Final Journey: Accounts of Ship, Crew, and Passengers in the Colonial Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 119, no. 2 (2018): 210–49. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.119.2.0210.
- Cameron La Follette. Personal interview. The Nauti Archaeologist. 2024.
- Dr. James P. Delgado. Personal interview. The Nauti Archaeologist. 2024.
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Sources for this episode:
- Brown, Margaret. Descendant Netflix.com. Participant; Night Tide Production; Take One Five Entertainment. 2022.
- Delgado, Marx, Lent, Grinnan, & DeCaro. Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship. The University of Alabama Press; Alabama Historical Commission. 2023.
- Delgado, James. In-person interview. SEARCH, Inc. 2024.
- Rosario, Altevese. In-person interview. Clotilda Descendants Association. 2024.
- SEARCH, Inc. Archaeological Investigations of 1Ba704, A Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Site in the Mobile River, Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Alabama: Final Report. SEARCH, Inc. 2019.
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo. Zora Neale Hurston Trust. 2018.
- theclotildastory.com
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About the podcast, who I am, and how I'm going to tell you all about ships and shipwrecks with tons of knowledge and stuff.
The first trailer in over 2 years for a brand new season of the Nauti Archaeologist Podcast. We're dropping our first episode for our return season on June 19th 2024. Thanks for waiting with us, we're glad to be back. Go get wet, nerds.
Today we talk about the doomed French expedition to find the Mississippi River Delta (again) to colonize it first over a petty feud with Spain. They missed the Mississippi River by a long shot and ended up in a west Texas bay leading into the Gulf thinking “I don’t remember it being this small”. This is a story of incompetence at the highest of levels.
Franklin's Lost Expedition of 1845 lost all 129 men during what was meant to be a 2 year voyage. Beset in ice, the crew abandoned ship and trekked across the Arctic tundra for help, only to disappear, never heard from again. The crew and their ships, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, remained a mystery for over 100 years until Parks Canada found them in 2016. Research has been ongoing ever since! Join me as I talk about the history behind the ships that eluded explorers for years, and a mystery that still needs answers.
We will do a 10 episode season for shipwrecks with 10 minisodes on a submerged city per season. Take to Twitter and tell me what shipwreck you want to hear the background of and I’ll tell you their story. This is a podcast about the shipwrecks and submerged cities and the archaeology that takes place in their discovery and conservation. I’m going to tell you the story behind them, why and how they were lost (if known), and how the excavation went. So please join me for this armchair exploration of the worlds deepest (literally) mysteries!