AJV Archaeology
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -From exploring submerged pre-contact archaeological sites to investigating shipwrecks and maritime landscapes, this channel provides tales from the past and stories from the archaeologists who have discovered some of the world's most cherished remnants of previous cultures.
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Episode 22: AJV Archaeology No. 022 - LEGACY Pt. III- The Search for the Santa Gloria Caravels
January 09, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes - 48.2 MBThis is the third episode of the “LEGACY” series and is brought to you by Maritime Legacy Project: Jamaica. The Maritime Legacy Project: Jamaica is a geoarchaeological initiative to Search for Columbus’s last shipwrecks in Jamaica which are the maritime component of the Taíno-Spanish Encounter of 1503. Host and Archaeologist Andrew J. Van Slyke reads a paper co-authored with Dr. Marianne Franklin that they presented to the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (in April 2022) and to the S...
Episode 21: AJV Archaeology No. 021 - LEGACY Pt. II- My Start in Archaeology and Jamaica’s Beckoning
January 02, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 38.1 MBThis is the second episode of the “LEGACY” series and is brought to you by Maritime Legacy Project: Jamaica. The Maritime Legacy Project: Jamaica is a geoarchaeological initiative to Search for Columbus’s last shipwrecks in Jamaica which are the maritime component of the Taíno-Spanish Encounter of 1503. Host and Archaeologist Aj Van Slyke speaks on his start in the field, how his University of West Florida professors (Dr. Gregory Cook and Dr. Della Scott-Ireton of Florida Public Arc...
Episode 20: AJV Archaeology No. 20 - LEGACY Pt. 1 - The First Americans and America's Columbus - Dr. Jessi Halligan and Dr. Morgan Smith
October 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis is the first episode of the “LEGACY” series and is brought to you by Maritime Legacy Project: Jamaica. The Maritime Legacy Project is a geoarchaeological initiative to Search for Columbus’s last shipwrecks in Jamaica which are the maritime component of the Taíno-Spanish Encounter of 1503. Archaeologists Aj Van Slyke and Morgan Smith from the Maritime Legacy Project:Jamaica interview Jessi Halligan and talk about the pre-contact landscape of the Americas. In the coming months, ...
Episode 20: AJV Archaeology No. 020 - LEGACY Pt. I - The First Americans and America's Columbus - Dr. Jessi Halligan and Dr. Morgan Smith
October 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis is the first episode of the “LEGACY” series and is brought to you by Maritime Legacy Project: Jamaica. The Maritime Legacy Project is a geoarchaeological initiative to Search for Columbus’s last shipwrecks in Jamaica which are the maritime component of the Taíno-Spanish Encounter of 1503. Archaeologists Aj Van Slyke and Morgan Smith from the Maritime Legacy Project:Jamaica interview Jessi Halligan and talk about the pre-contact landscape of the Americas. In the coming months, ...
Episode 19: AJV Archaeology No. 19 - Spanish Treasure Fleets Part III: The 1622 Spanish Treasure Galleon in Dry Tortugas National Park
September 05, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutes - 96.6 MBPrimary source documents suggest seven to nine Spanish vessels wrecked in the Lower Florida Keys on 6 September 1622. Over the past 400 years, only treasure hunters have located three vessels of the doomed fleet. Historical Documents point to three other shipwrecks in modern Dry Tortugas National Park. NPS Underwater Archaeologists and historians study the fleet’s disaster, contemporary salvage, and protect the delicate nature of the shipwrecks in Dry Tortugas National Park. Since...
Episode 18: AJV Archaeology No. 018 - Spanish Treasure Fleets Part II: The History of the Spanish Treasure Fleet System
September 02, 2022 00:00 - 50 minutes - 95.1 MBWith the 400th anniversary of the 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet Disaster occurring next week, I am dedicating a podcast series to the earliest shipwrecks and maritime history of the Florida Keys. In this podcast series, Spanish Treasure Fleets, we dive deep into the history of the oldest shipwrecks in the Florida Keys. This, the second podcast: The History of the Spanish Treasure Fleet System, illustrates the maritime system that shaped the modern world’s economy and de- and re-populate...
Episode 17: AJV Archaeology No. 017 - Spanish Treasure Fleets Part I: The Men Who Stole the Stars
August 29, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this podcast series, Spanish Treasure Fleets, we dive deep into the history of the oldest wrecks in the Florida Keys. The first podcast, The Men Who Stole the Stars, is a metaphor for the difference between the academic pursuit of archeology and the profit-driven motives of treasure hunting. In 1979, Peter Stanford, editor of Sea History, asked George Bass if he would write an article on the difference between archaeology and treasure hunting. Bass began a letter of response...
Episode 16: AJV Archaeology No. 16 - The Dr. Samuel Mudd Conspiracy and The Medical History of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park
August 19, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 77.5 MBLive from Dr. Samuel Mudd's prison cell near the Sally Port of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park, University of Miami graduate student Devon Fogerty, tells us the medical history of the Dry Tortugas and readdresses Dr. Mudd's racism and troubled past. This podcast was meant to be a "Part One," but after exciting discoveries in the field (days after this podcast's recording), we can't yet tell you our findings likely jeopardizing a "Part Two."
Episode 15: AJV Archaeology No. 015 - Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program
July 27, 2022 00:00 - 30 minutes - 58 MBA conversation with Austin Burkhard, Underwater Archaeologist of SEARCH H20 Inc., regarding the Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program!
Episode 14: AJV Archaeology No. 014 - Archaeology in South Florida National Parks
August 13, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 253 MBJoshua Marano tells us about how he found archaeology, studies maritime cultural landscapes, and does archaeology in Biscayne, Everglades, and Dry Tortugas National Parks.
Episode 3: AJV Archaeology No. 014 - Archaeology in South Florida National Parks
August 13, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 253 MBJoshua Marano tells us about how he found archaeology, studies maritime cultural landscapes, and does archaeology in Biscayne, Everglades, and Dry Tortugas National Parks.
Episode 13: AJV Archaeology No. 013 - The Future of Black Maritime Archaeology
July 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 671 MBA great interview with Gabrielle Miller and Stephanie Sterling about the future of Black maritime archaeology.
Episode 2: AJV Archaeology No. 013 - The Future of Black Maritime Archaeology
July 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 671 MBA great interview with Gabrielle Miller and Stephanie Sterling about the future of Black maritime archaeology.
Episode 12: AJV Archaeology No. 012 - The HALD Method
July 02, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 386 MBDr. Morgan Smith and Shawn Joy discuss the new Human Altered Lithic Detection (HALD) method, and they tell how they discover submerged precontact archaeological sites in Florida!
Episode 1: AJV Archaeology No. 012 - The HALD Method
July 02, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 386 MBDr. Morgan Smith and Shawn Joy discuss the new Human Altered Lithic Detection (HALD) method, and they tell how they discover submerged precontact archaeological sites in Florida!
From Who’s Afraid to ¡Yo Solo! : The Hunt for HMS Mentor, Part VI – The Environmental and Cultural Context of the Blackwater River, Florida
March 25, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 36.4 MBThis multi-part podcast series is an attempt to locate a Royal Naval vessel, which was destroyed in Blackwater Bay, part of the Pensacola Bay System, Florida, during the spring of 1781. The study utilized maritime cultural landscape theory to construct an understanding of the setting and circumstances in which the ship sank. A history of the vessel is introduced to add context to the historical and environmental analysis defined by a critical examination of the Royal Navy’s 18th-cent...
From Who’s Afraid to ¡Yo Solo! : The Hunt for HMS Mentor, Part III – The Maritime Cultural Landscape Theory of 18th-century Royal Naval Pensacola Bay
March 17, 2020 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.5 MBThis multi-part podcast series is an attempt to locate a Royal Naval vessel, which was destroyed in Blackwater Bay, part of the Pensacola Bay System, Florida, during the spring of 1781. The study utilized maritime cultural landscape theory to construct an understanding of the setting and circumstances in which the ship sank. A history of the vessel is introduced to add context to the historical and environmental analysis defined by a critical examination of the Royal Navy’s 18th-cent...
From Who’s Afraid to ¡Yo Solo! : The Hunt for HMS Mentor, Part II – The Maritime Cultural Landscape Theory of 18th-century Royal Naval Pensacola Bay
March 17, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutes - 8.1 MBThis multi-part podcast series is an attempt to locate a Royal Naval vessel, which was destroyed in Blackwater Bay, part of the Pensacola Bay System, Florida, during the spring of 1781. The study utilized maritime cultural landscape theory to construct an understanding of the setting and circumstances in which the ship sank. A history of the vessel is introduced to add context to the historical and environmental analysis defined by a critical examination of the Royal Navy’s 18th-cent...
From Who’s Afraid to ¡Yo Solo! : The Hunt for HMS Mentor, Part I - Introduction
March 13, 2020 00:00 - 10 minutes - 20 MBThis multi-part podcast series is an attempt to locate a Royal Naval vessel, which was destroyed in Blackwater Bay, part of the Pensacola Bay System, Florida, during the spring of 1781. The study utilized maritime cultural landscape theory to construct an understanding of the setting and circumstances in which the ship sank. A history of the vessel is introduced to add context to the historical and environmental analysis defined by a critical examination of the Royal Navy’s 18th-cent...
Shipwrecks of the Blackwater River: A History of the River's Maps
March 10, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 93.2 MBThis podcast was a live talk I gave on the Shipwrecks of Blackwater River at the Bagdad Village Museum on Saturday, March 7, 2020. https://blackwatermaritimeheritagetrails.org/ or https://BMHTrails.org/ sponsored the event along with Bagdad Waterfronts Florida Partnership 501c3 non-profit and the Bagdad Village Historic Preservation Association. The map on the cover of the podcast is from 1937 and can be found: https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/image=1265-11-1937
Fortifying British Pensacola (1763- 10 May 1781)
February 26, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 53.5 MBDon Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish Governor of Louisiana and Field Marshall of the Spanish troops, laid siege to the capital of British West Florida at Pensacola in 1781. The 61-day siege was the longest landlocked siege of the American Revolutionary War. The Siege of Pensacola was the conclusion of Gálvez’s conquest of the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River Valley. Commencing his conquest from New Orleans in September 1779, one month after a violent hurricane destroyed t...
The Case of HMS Stork and HMS West Florida
February 23, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 47.2 MBHMS Stork and HMS West Florida were merely two Royal Naval vessels dispatched to the Pensacola Station from 1777 to 1781. HMS West Florida was purchased in 1777 and named after the colony it was sent to protect. The name was chosen as a means of distinguistion from the HMS Florida Sloop and HMS Florida schooner. West Florida lost the Battle of Lake Ponchartrain, in 1779, to the American ship Morris. It is rumored and very likely that the crew of Morris sold West Florida to the Spani...
The Maritime Battlefield Landscape In Archaeology
February 20, 2020 00:00 - 25 minutes - 47.4 MBThis paper will situate maritime battlefield cultural landscape theory in the archaeological discipline. Stemming from a variety of cultural landscape theory, an archaeological study of a single maritime battlefield may lend a synchronic understanding of how soldiers in fortifications on land, sailors aboard naval vessels in bodies of water, and more recently, pilots of planes in the sky, attacked and defended an area during a time of conflict. A collection of archaeological studies ...
The Argument For The Identification Of The Deadman's Island Shipwreck And Town Point Shipwreck, Part I
February 14, 2020 00:00 - 18 minutes - 35.8 MBThe Deadman’s Island and Town Point Shipwrecks are unidentified wrecks that were archaeologically investigated and interpreted as small stripped and abandoned vessels from the British Occupational Period of Pensacola (1763-1781). The wrecks were in an 18th-century British Royal Navy careenage called Old Navy Cove at the landform known as Deadman’s Island near Gulf Breeze, Florida. Documents rediscovered may prove the Deadman’s Island Wreck to be HMS Florida, the last survey schooner ...
The Argument For The Identification Of The Deadman's Island Shipwreck And Town Point Shipwreck, Part II
February 14, 2020 00:00 - 16 minutes - 29.9 MBThe Deadman’s Island and Town Point Shipwrecks are unidentified wrecks that were archaeologically investigated and interpreted as small stripped and abandoned vessels from the British Occupational Period of Pensacola (1763-1781). The wrecks were in an 18th-century British Royal Navy careenage called Old Navy Cove at the landform known as Deadman’s Island near Gulf Breeze, Florida. Documents rediscovered may prove the Deadman’s Island Wreck to be HMS Florida, the last survey schooner ...
The Wrecking of Le Tigre 1766
January 19, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutes - 60.8 MBEl Tigre was a French brigantine loaded with merchandise that wrecked during a storm on 16 February 1766, east of Dog Island. The ship was headed to New Orleans from St. Domingue (modern Haiti) when they encountered a storm in the Gulf of Mexico and ran aground on an offshore reef (possibly the modern Dog Island Barrier Reef). The wrecking of Tigre and the survival of an experienced seaman and French merchant Pierre Viaud was published in a 1768, Naufrage et Aventures de M. Pierre V...