Dead man's chest: exploring the archaeology of piracy

Abstract

"This book presents a variety of approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Opening Salvo -- On Celebrating Piracy: But Should We? / Charles R. Ewen -- Pirate Swag: Material Culture Studies -- The Stories They Tell: Recent Finds from Queen Anne's Revenge/La Concorde (1718) / Kimberly P. Kenyon -- Sail Bags and Black Flags: Identifying Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Pirates / Jessie Cragg and Michael Thomin -- "Running a Rig": Pirates and Archaeology in Video Games / Coy J. Idol and Katherine D. Thomas -- The Material Culture of Pirate Wrecks and Lairs: A Reflection of Colonial Archaeology through Multicultural Assemblages from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Jean Soulat -- Transatlantic Piracy -- Casting Piracy a Line: An Examination of the Influence of Piracy in the Archaeological Record of Two New England Fishing Settlements / Megan Rhodes Victor -- The Archaeology of Lundy Pirates: A Case Study of Material Culture / Patrick J. Boyle -- The Mystery of Morgan's Island: Archaeological Insights into a Possible Pirate Wreck at Somerset, Bermuda / Bradley Rodgers and Jason T. Raupp -- Pirates of the Caribbean and Terra Firma -- What's to Become of Me?: Pirates and Refugees in the Archaeological Landscape of the Virgin Islands / Kenneth S. Wild -- Pirates at Grand Case Bay, St. Martin (French West Indies): Interpreting Archaeological Evidence from a Late Seventeenth-Century Settlement / Alexandre Coulaud, Nathalie Sellier-S'gard, and Martijn van den Bel -- Mysterious Tortuga Island, Republic of Haiti / Laurent Pavlidis -- The Pirate of Cotinga Island: The History and Archaeology of a Mysterious Shipwreck in the South of Brazil / Geraldo J. S. Hostin -- Buccaneers and Harpooners of the Miskito Coast / Lynn B. Harris -- Piracy in the Indian Ocean -- Pirate Lairs in Ambodifototra Bay (Sainte-Marie Island, Madagascar)?: Traces of Fortifications and Camps in Archives and Archaeological Remains / John de Bry and Jean Soulat -- The Speaker (1702) Pirate Shipwreck on the East Side of Mauritius: Review of Archaeological Data and Research Perspectives / Jean Soulat, Yann von Arnim, and Patrick Liz' -- Parting Shot -- Unpacking the Dead Man's Chest / Russell K. Skowronek.