AJV Archaeology

AJV Archaeology

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AJV Archaeology episodes

  • 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 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 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (in January 2023).
     In the coming months, the LEGACY series will interview the co-founders of the Maritime Legacy Project, Dr. Mare Everett Franklin, and Dorrick Gray, as well as others who have searched for the Caravels or joined our team, such as Dr. Morgan Smith, Shawn Joy, Gabrielle Miller, Chris Horrell, and Dr. Charles Bendig.
     
     Find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy podcasts. To listen on the web, visit www.ajvarchaeology.org 

    43 min
  • 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 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 Archaeology Network - Northwest Region), shipwrecks, and Jamaica’s maritime legacy shaped his experience. 

     

    In the coming months, the LEGACY series will interview the co-founders of the Maritime Legacy Project, Mare Everett Franklin, and Dorrick Gray, as well as others who have searched for the Caravels or joined our team, such as Morgan Smith, Shawn Joy, Gabrielle Miller, and Chris Horrell.

     

    Find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy podcasts. To listen on the web, visit ajvarchaeology.org

    34 min
  • 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. 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, the LEGACY series will interview the co-founders of the Maritime Legacy Project, Mare Everett Franklin and Dorrick Gray as well as others who have searched for the Caravels or join our team such as: Shawn Joy, Gabrielle Miller, and Chris Horrell.

    Dr. Jessi Halligan of the Florida State University and Dr. Morgan Smith of the University of Tennessee, Chatanooga, join the Podcast for an intriguing look at the archaeology of the First Americans. Recorded on Leif Erikson day (October 9, 2022) on the day before Indigenous People's Day/Columbus Day, this Podcast broadens the context about humanity's arrival to the Americas and the rise of Columbus as an American symbol. With the broaden context, Halligan and Smith discuss the earliest sites in the Americas, their study of those specific geoarchaeological sites, and how archaeology continues to refine our understanding of symbols of the past.

    Find the podcast wherever you enjoy podcasts or at ajvarchaeology.org

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 19: AJV Archaeology No. 019 - Spanish Treasure Fleets Part III: The 1622 Spanish Treasure Galleon in Dry Tortugas National Park
    Primary 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 underwater archaeology began in Dry Tortugas National Park (then Fort Jefferson National Monument) in 1971, many archaeologists led investigations to find the 650-ton galleon Nuestra Señora del Rosario, a patache (which carried messages between the treasure galleons), and the Portuguese frigate Nuestra Señora del Rosario in the Dry Tortugas. Not only were the ships salvaged in 1623, but the wooden remains were burned to make it easier for the Spanish to recover all the bronze cannons and precious metal in the holds of the ships. Therefore, the only things that remain from these shipwrecks aren’t the wood, silver, or even iron fasteners, but only a few ballast stones and an assemblage of wrought-iron, breech-loading swivel guns. Archeologists have never located this type of swivel gun in a dateable context—besides a single gun La Belle (1686), which was wrecked in Matagorda Bay, Texas.  These guns are dated to 1450-1550 in European museums. The grouping of this style of swivel gun in Dry Tortugas demonstrates how older, cheaply-made guns crafted around the time of the Spanish Armada (1588) armed the rails of treasure galleons in 1622 because of a decline in the Spanish economy. Without archaeology, we would never know the aspects of history that slip into the sea.
    52 min
  • Episode 18: AJV Archaeology No. 018 - Spanish Treasure Fleets Part II: The History of the Spanish Treasure Fleet System
    With 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-populated the Caribbean and the Americas.  The Spanish Treasure Fleets carved one of the oldest and now most used routes from North America to Europe. They grew the economies of the “Old World” by stealing from and abusing the indigenous populations of the “new.” Precious metals drove the greed of conquistadors and the Royals who wished to tax the profits to fuel their wars—other nations colonized what the Spanish couldn’t hold to get in on the action. Here is the history of the treasure fleets, how they fell into enemy hands and were wrecked at the mercy of Mother Nature along the coasts of North America and the Caribbean.
    51 min
  • Episode 17: AJV Archaeology No. 017 - Spanish Treasure Fleets Part I: The Men Who Stole the Stars
    In 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 and, in the middle, began to turn the letter into a short story to make his point. Since Sea History, that part of his letter has now been published in several other American and Dutch magazines as “The Men Who Stole the Stars.” Except for substituting the word “stars” for “shipwrecks,” everything in the story is based on fact.
    17 min
  • Episode 16: AJV Archaeology No. 016 - The Dr. Samuel Mudd Conspiracy and The Medical History of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park
    Live 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."
    41 min

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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…