{"id":517,"date":"2017-05-09T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/?page_id=517"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:14:54","slug":"mahone-evidence-testing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/atlantean\/maritime-puzzles\/mahone-bay-treasures\/mahone-bay-oak-island\/mahone-evidence-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahone Evidence Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Private triangle mercantilism<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>A smuggler&#8217;s entrep\u00f4t during the Ancien R\u00e9gime?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project start:<\/strong> March 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Hypotheses at: <\/strong>May 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>General framework &#8211; <\/strong>Sometimes a hole in the data<strong><em> is<\/em> <\/strong>the data<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A. Route Archaeology\/History &#8211; Archives Search for Testable Evidence<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>the bay of the privateers<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can local privateer activity be documented back to the 16th-18th century period?<\/li>\n<li>Company archives search &#8211; especially Dutch WIC &amp; VOC companies, New England, New France, Canada, France, England,&nbsp; West Indies<\/li>\n<li>National archives &#8211; England, USA, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, West Indies States, Hanseatic League<\/li>\n<li>Trading Patterns mapping &#8211; heat maps of the data &#8211; what are the hidden patterns of known smuggling trade flow?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Archival\/Historical Research<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acadian-New England vs. Imperial Trade<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Acadian and the American and French Revolutions of 1776-1796<\/li>\n<li>Roots of Revolutions &#8211; an exchange of goods, an exchange of the idea of liberty?<\/li>\n<li>Did Acadian independence and anti-tax-mindedness influence revolutionary thinking?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Using weather to narrow the archival search<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>{ coming soon }<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>B. Commercial Route Science Techniques<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Geochemical Trace Sampling<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Does geochemical analysis identify origin of the product (ex. NS Windsor Formation)?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geotrace samples to test for location of possible geological formation source<\/li>\n<li>Compare samples of pre-1697 C mortar, plaster, and whitewash in Nova Scotia, New England, Newfoundland, Acadia, West Indies<\/li>\n<li>Compare buildings, shipwrecks and artifacts of the period for surface deposition<\/li>\n<li>Do samples suggest a match?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Acadia\/New France<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigate Acadian artifacts for lime and mortar deposition<\/li>\n<li>perform core sampling of historic dikes &#8211; lime deposition at 16th-18th century depth?<\/li>\n<li>Do samples suggest a match to Windsor Formation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Private Triangle Trade<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Atlantic Colonies (England\/Britain, New Netherland, New Sweden, New France) + Africa + West Indies<\/li>\n<li>Research in Canada, USA, UK, France, The Netherlands, French West Indies, English West Indies<\/li>\n<li>Commercial and smugglers&#8217; trading webs across the pre-industrial world during the Age of Sail<\/li>\n<li>Map evidence to test for trading patterns &#8211; heat maps of the data<\/li>\n<li>Do they suggest a trading relationship or pattern?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>C. Remote Sensing Archaeology<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sea-level rise can be reverse-engineered back to the 17th century.<\/li>\n<li>Use 16th-18th Century shoreline estimates and nautical charts to evaluate possible sites for field investigation.<\/li>\n<li>Match against air and satellite remote sensing imagery.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>D. Site Archaeology using advice of Master Mariner with 16th-18th Century historical knowledge<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>16th-18th Century seasonal encampments<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backdating sea-level drops back to 15th-18th century\n<ul>\n<li>(estimate 0.4 to 1.4m) &#8211; [&#8220;sea&#8221;, p. ]<\/li>\n<li>Use this data to evaluate possible sites for field investigation<\/li>\n<li>Use air &amp; satellite remote sensing x machine learning analysis to zero in on sites of interest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What are the likeliest sites that were above sea-level during the period?<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>develop priority list of needs of that era<\/li>\n<li>with the help of sailing masters, and &#8220;hand&#8217;s-on&#8221; military\/naval navigation experts of the Age of Sail<\/li>\n<li>with the help of &#8220;16th-18th Century mariner\/trading&#8221; era experts<\/li>\n<li>with the help of historians in Nova Scotia, New England, UK, Bilbao (Spain) and La Rochelle (France)<\/li>\n<li>define necessities for 16th-18th century limestone processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p><strong><em>E<\/em><em>. <\/em><em>Field Archaeology options<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backdating sea-level drops back to 15th-18th century<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Statistically analyze and field-check glacial striation paths from Mahone Bay deposit\n<ul>\n<li>evaluate whether either culture used the hushing technique [<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">See Lime Processing Methods &#8211; at Research Notes &#8211; coming soon<\/span><\/strong>]<\/li>\n<li>map unsubmerged depositional landforms in the region that could have boulder deposits<\/li>\n<li>map proximity of depositional features to Acadian and Mi&#8217;kmaq settlements and paths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Statistically analyze (machine-learning, AI, etc) likely cultural patterns\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Vitale et al, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/220308379_Exploring_Ancient_Landscapes_Under_Lake_Huron_Using_Cultural_Algorithms\">Exploring Ancient Landscapes Under Lake Huron Using Cultural Algorithms.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>heat maps of trade across the region &#8211; do empty regions mark the unofficial trade?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>E. Site Archaeology projects<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ground-truthing &amp; dive archaeology by professional archaeologists &amp; diving volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>Obtain help from a ready pool of summer &#8220;dig site&#8221; volunteers &amp; visitors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private triangle mercantilism A smuggler&#8217;s entrep\u00f4t during the Ancien R\u00e9gime? 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