Excavation at Aguas Buenas, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, of a gunpowder magazine and the supposed campsite of Alexander Selkirk, together with an account of early navigational dividers

Autor:	Daisuke Takahashi, Jim Tate, Miguel A. Saavedra, Iván Cáceres, David H Caldwell, A D Morrison-Low, Mauricio Calderón
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Archeology History Gunpowder law Copper alloy Excavation Archaeology law.invention
Zdroj:	Post-Medieval Archaeology. 41:270-304
ISSN:	1745-8137 0079-4236
DOI:	10.1179/174581307x236157
Popis:	Excavations were undertaken of a ruined building at Aguas Buenas, identified as an 18th-century Spanish gunpowder magazine. Evidence was also found for the campsite of an early European occupant of the island. A case is made that this was Alexander Selkirk, a castaway here from 1704 to 1709. Selkirk was the model for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. A detailed discussion is given of a fragment of copper alloy identified as being from a pair of navigational dividers.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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