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Shipwreck survivor camps: A neglected terrestrial component of maritime archaeology in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Elizabeth van Tonder --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaIn South Africa there has been limited systematic investigation of shipwreck survivor camps as an archaeological phenomenon. In most cases these sites are investigated purely as an adjunct to work on the associated wreck. The aim of this paper is... -
Fish associated with artificial reefs in False Bay, South Africa: a preliminary survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Y.A.R.G Lechanteur --- Marine Biology Research Institute, South Africa C.L. Griffiths --- Marine Biology Research Institute, South AfricaThis study compares the suprabenthic fish assemblages inhabiting eight shipwrecks in False Bay with those found on adjacent natural reefs. 3411 fishes of 18 species were recorded on the wrecks. Species densities recorded on wrecks in both shallow and deep... -
Diving into the Slave Wreck: The São José Paquete d’Africa and Yvette Christiansë’s Imprendehora
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Charne Lavery --- , South AfricaThe first slave wreck to be definitively identified is the São José-Paquete de Africa, a slave ship from Mozambique Island wrecked off the coast of Cape Town. This paper takes that wreck as case study and context for the southern... -
A Cowrie’s Life: The São Bento and Transoceanic Trade in the Sixteenth Century
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Justine Wintjes --- , South AfricaA collection of money cowries (Monetaria moneta) was discovered in the early 1980s inside a bronze cannon salvaged from the wreck site of the São Bento (1554), at the mouth of the Mzikaba River, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Using an...