Abstract
Mexican–American expeditions have been investigating a Manila galleon shipwreck on the western shore of the Baja California peninsula since 1999. The ship most likely is the San Juanillo of 1578. The remains of the ship’s hull, cargo, weaponry, and personal possessions provide insights into the sources of the material remains and the trade patterns which brought them together at that very early period of the Manila galleon trade.
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Notes
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Raymond Aker’s plans were published in Von der Porten (2008).
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de Morga (1971, p. 62).
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The lead sheathing has not yet been analyzed and published.
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Comparable sounding leads are described in Gardiner (2005, pp. 277–279).
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The details of the compass gimbals are in Von der Porten’s “The Compass Gimbals.” The standard source for sixteenth-century navigation techniques is Waters (1958). For compasses, see pp. 20–30. Another history is Gurney (2004). The Mary Rose’s compasses are described in Gardiner (2005, pp. 267–271). The San Juan’s compass is described in Grenier et al. (2007, vol. 4, pp. 150–151). The Nova Zembla compass is described in Braat et al. (1998, pp. 161–163).
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The lead shot from the Mary Rose, including iron-core shot, are described in Hildred (2011, Part One, pp. 348–358).
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The sherd is described and identified in “The Iberian Earthenware Sherd” by Dr. Marco Meniketti.
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The standard text is Marken (1994). The olive-jar neck from Baja California was found in November 2016 and has not yet been published.
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The pollen analysis is described in Laura White and Staci Willis’s “The Pollens in the Beeswax.”
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The stonewares are described in John Schlagheck’s “The Oriental Stonewares.”
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Book by Edward Von der Porten. All the porcelains described below are published in this book.
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Some of the small metal objects have not yet been analyzed and published because many of them were found recently.
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The lock plate and one of the lead balls are described in Peter Von der Porten’s “The Matchlock Lock Plate and Lead Ball.”
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Von der Porten, E. (2019). Clues to Internationalism in the Manila Galleon Wreck of the Late 1570s in Baja California. In: Wu, C., Junco Sanchez, R., Liu, M. (eds) Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization. The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9248-2_12
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