Iron and Steamship Archaeology Success and Failure on the SS Xantho /

In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site. This relatively straightforward assig...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Michael. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
Series:The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology,
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