Amanda M. Evans is the Senior Marine Archaeologist for Tesla Offshore LLC. She is an elected officer and serves on the Board of Directors for the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology and is on the Board of Directors for the Register of Professional Archaeologists. Amanda received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.

“A comprehensive 30-year survey of underwater vernacular vessels in the Great Lakes includes passenger steamers and grain and canal schooners, as well as bulk carriers. … This exploration of the history and archaeology of these little-known watercraft brings to light their importance as part of the economic and recreational fabric of North America. Summing Up: Recommended. All public and academic libraries.” (J. B. Richardson III, Choice, Vol. 55 (2), October, 2017)

• Foreward.  Mark Staniforth.- Chapter 1. Amanda M. Evans (Tesla Offshore, LLC) and Sheli O. Smith (PAST Foundation), Vernacular Watercraft: In Concept and In Practice .- Chapter 2. Amanda M. Evans (Tesla Offshore, LLC), Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Vernacular Boats as Environmental Adaptations.- Chapter 3.  Roger Smith, Ph.D. (Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research), The Caymanian Catboat.- Chapter 4. Samuel Turner, Ph.D. (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program), The Bergantín, a Little Known Craft from the Early Spanish Period in the New World.- Chapter 5. Della Scott-Ireton, Ph.D. (Florida Public Archaeology Network) and Christopher Horrell, Ph.D. (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement), Expressions of a Dying Tradition: Vernacular Watercraft in Apalachicola, Florida..- Chapter 6. Chuck Meide (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program), Some Assembly Required: The Analysis and Reassembly of the Larkin Boat, a Vernacular Watercraft Recovered from Gregory Mill Creek in Liberty County, Florida.- Chapter 7. Melanie Damour (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), Born on the Bayou: Louisiana’s Vernacular Constructed Watercraft.- Chapter 8.  Bradley A. Rodgers, Ph.D. (East Carolina University), and Nathan Richards, Ph.D. (East Carolina University), The Watercraft of Castle Island, Washington, North Carolina.- Chapter 9. David C. Switzer (Plymouth State College), The Shallop of Hart’s Cove.- Chapter 10.  Brad Loewen, Ph.D. (University of Montreal), Cultural Transmissions of the “Biscayne Shallop” in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1560-1750.- Chapter 11.  Charles Dagneau (Parcs Canada), The Batteau plat of New France: Its Origin, Construction and Design .- Chapter 12.  Bradley A. Rodgers, Ph.D. (East Carolina University), Vernacular Craft of the North American Great Lakes.- Chapter 13.  Steve J. Dasovich, Ph.D. (Lindenwood University),  The Support System for Riverine Trade in the United States.- Chapter 14. John Foster (California State Parks), Deborah Marx (California State Parks, NOAA), Sheli O. Smith (California State Parks, PAST Foundation), and Charles Beeker (Indiana University), The Mini Fleet of Emerald Bay; Recreational Vernacular Watercraft