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AJV Archaeology

by Aj Van Slyke

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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Episodes

  1. Episode 22: AJV Archaeology No. 022 - LEGACY Pt. III- The Search for the Santa Gloria Caravels

    This 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...

  2. Episode 21: AJV Archaeology No. 021 - LEGACY Pt. II- My Start in Archaeology and Jamaica’s Beckoning

    This 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…

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  3. Episode 20: AJV Archaeology No. 020 - LEGACY Pt. I - The First Americans and America's Columbus - Dr. Jessi Halligan and Dr. Morgan Smith

    This 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....

  4. From Who’s Afraid to ¡Yo Solo! : The Hunt for HMS Mentor, Part VI – The Environmental and Cultural Context of the Blackwater River, Florida

    This 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...

  5. 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

    This 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...

  6. 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

    This 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...

  7. From Who’s Afraid to ¡Yo Solo! : The Hunt for HMS Mentor, Part I - Introduction

    This 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...

  8. Shipwrecks of the Blackwater River: A History of the River's Maps

    This 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...

  9. Fortifying British Pensacola (1763- 10 May 1781)

    Don 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...

  10. The Case of HMS Stork and HMS West Florida

    HMS 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...

  11. The Maritime Battlefield Landscape In Archaeology

    This 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,...

  12. The Argument For The Identification Of The Deadman's Island Shipwreck And Town Point Shipwreck, Part II

    The 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...

  13. The Argument For The Identification Of The Deadman's Island Shipwreck And Town Point Shipwreck, Part I

    The 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...

  14. The Wrecking of Le Tigre 1766

    El 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...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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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Aj Van Slyke

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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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AJV Archaeology is created and hosted by Aj Van Slyke.
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