The Nauti Archaeologist Podcast

Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle was an arrogant monk-turned-adventurer (this sounds like the start of a D&D campaign) responsible for most of the French expansion in the Great Lakes area and along the Mississippi River. Of course, as an adventurer, he's used to loss, but his final expedition was particularly plagued by shipwrecks (multiple), snake bites, prickly pear incidents, and...

Before betraying the burgeoning United States of America to the British for a new rank and some new digs, Benedict Arnold bought the Continental Army some much needed time to recover from the previous season of fighting during the year of 1776. A brilliant tactician, Arnold met the British on Lake Champlain at the Battle of Valcour Island -- arguably America's first naval encounter. Unstoppabl...

Due to a series of events happening in my personal life, this week has been difficult to work on the podcast. Don't worry! This isn't permanent, and we'll be back next week with an episode on the Revolutionary War-era gunboat: The Spitfire, with Chris Sabick of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. In the meantime, check them out! Don't sweat, we'll put these links in the show no...

One of the oldest shipwrecks in the world, the Uluburun Shipwreck, sometimes looped together with the Cape Gelidonya wreck, is in a league of her own. Scientists conducted over 22,000 dives to the wreck between 1984 and 1994, collecting thousands of artifacts that give us a glimpse of Bronze Age merchant trade and what a ship laden with gifts fit for a queen looks like 3,000 years later. Joined ag...

Want to learn about roof tiles? What if I told you there were gargoyles (grotesques), samurai, ninjas, ninja samurai, and samurai ghosts involved? Good, now that I've got your attention, Dr. Mike Perrin, ARIUA, discusses the Hatsushima Island shipwreck, and its possible place on the Tokugawa Timeline. Time to get wet, nerds. Sources: http://www.themua.org/collections/files/original/6ce8d871c6d...

The Goonies, 1985, is a fictional story about several local kids who find a pirate ship full of treasure in a sea cave, almost frozen in time. Inspired by the shipwreck rumors on the Northwest Oregon coast, seemingly confirmed by the artifacts washing ashore, no one was aware of the true story – the political maneuvering, powerful religious figures, bribery, smuggling, a trial, and a daring escape...

Sources for this episode: Brown, Margaret. Descendant Netflix.com. Participant; Night Tide Production; Take One Five Entertainment. 2022. Delgado, Marx, Lent, Grinnan, & DeCaro. Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship. The University of Alabama Press; Alabama Historical Commission. 2023. Delgado, James. In-person interview. SEARCH, Inc. 2024. Rosario, Altevese. In-person i...

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The first trailer in over 2 years for a brand new season of the Nauti Archaeologist Podcast. We're dropping our first episode for our return season on June 19th 2024. Thanks for waiting with us, we're glad to be back. Go get wet, nerds.