Russell K. Skowronek – författare

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the southwestern United States was known as Alta California, a remote part of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analyzed in the literature. Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California fills that lacuna and reinterprets the position of Alta California in the Spanish Colonial Empire.

Using both petrography and neutron activation analysis to examine over 1,600 ceramic samples, the contributors to this volume explore the region’s ceramic production, imports, trade, and consumption. From artistic innovation to technological diffusion, a different aspect of the intricacies of everyday life and culture in the region is revealed in each essay. This book illuminates much about Spanish imperial expansion in a far corner of the colonial world. Through this research, California history has been rewritten.

There is little to distinguish the pirate from the average sailor in the archaeological record. Virtually every pirate-related site yet excavated would not be identified as such without the accompanying historical record. The contributors to this volume combine both material culture and archival research to confirm the exploits of pirates and the ships they sailed.

Expanding on the widely successful X Marks the Spot, Pieces of Eight explores the newest findings in the maritime archaeology of piracy. The contributors examine the latest discoveries at Captain Henry Morgan''s encampments and recount William Kidd''s epic capture of the Quedagh Merchant in the Indian Ocean. Other chapters include explorations of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne''s Revenge, Bartholomew "Black Bart" Robert''s Ranger, and even Hollywood''s portrayal of pirates. Pieces of Eight is a thrilling and eye-opening view of pirate life—as well as the final underwater resting places of their ships.

A global approach to better understandingpiracy through archaeology

    Featuringdiscussions of newly discovered evidence from South America, England, NewEngland, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, Dead Man’s Chest presents diverseapproaches to better understanding piracy through archaeologicalinvestigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentaryand cartographic evidence.

    The casestudies in this volume include medieval and postmedieval piracy in the BristolChannel, illicit trade in seventeenth-century fishing stations in Maine, and theguerrilla tactics of nineteenth-century privateers and coastal bandits off the Gulfof Mexico Coast. Contributors reveal the story of a Dutch privateer who saved aship from a storm only to take control of it, partnerships between pirates andIndigenous inhabitants along the Miskito coast, and new findings on the Speaker—one of the first pirate ships tobe archaeologically investigated—in Madagascar.

    As well as covering shipwrecks and other topicstraditionally associated with piracy, several chapters look at piratefacilities on land and cultural interactions with nearby communities asreflected through archival documentation. As a whole, the volume highlightsvarious ways to identify piracy and smuggling in the archaeological record,while encouraging readers to question what they think they know about pirates.

Contributors: Dr. Charles R. Ewen | Russell K. Skowronek | Yannvon Arnim | Martijn van den Bel | Patrick J. Boyle | John de Bry |  Alexandre Coulaud | Jessie Cragg | Lynn B.Harris |  Geraldo J. S. Hostin |  Coy Jacob Idol | Kimberly P. Kenyon | PatrickLizé | Laurent Pavlidis| Jason T. Raupp | Bradley Rodgers | NathalieSellier-Ségard | Jean Soulat | Katherine D. Thomas | Michael Thomin | MeganRhodes Victor | Kenneth S. Wild

A global approach to better understandingpiracy through archaeology

     Featuringdiscussions of newly discovered evidence from South America, England, NewEngland, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, Dead Man’s Chest presents diverseapproaches to better understanding piracy through archaeologicalinvestigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentaryand cartographic evidence.

     The casestudies in this volume include medieval and postmedieval piracy in the BristolChannel, illicit trade in seventeenth-century fishing stations in Maine, and theguerrilla tactics of nineteenth-century privateers and coastal bandits off the Gulfof Mexico Coast. Contributors reveal the story of a Dutch privateer who saved aship from a storm only to take control of it, partnerships between pirates andIndigenous inhabitants along the Miskito coast, and new findings on the Speaker—one of the first pirate ships tobe archaeologically investigated—in Madagascar.

     As well as covering shipwrecks and other topicstraditionally associated with piracy, several chapters look at piratefacilities on land and cultural interactions with nearby communities asreflected through archival documentation. As a whole, the volume highlightsvarious ways to identify piracy and smuggling in the archaeological record,while encouraging readers to question what they think they know about pirates.

Contributors: Dr. Charles R. Ewen | Russell K. Skowronek | Yannvon Arnim | Martijn van den Bel | Patrick J. Boyle | John de Bry |  Alexandre Coulaud | Jessie Cragg | Lynn B.Harris |  Geraldo J. S. Hostin |  Coy Jacob Idol | Kimberly P. Kenyon | PatrickLizé | Laurent Pavlidis| Jason T. Raupp | Bradley Rodgers | NathalieSellier-Ségard | Jean Soulat | Katherine D. Thomas | Michael Thomin | MeganRhodes Victor | Kenneth S. Wild