Although archaeological studies of the historic past have long explored the dynamics of European colonialism, broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction, and sensuality have only recently become acknowledged as essential components of the “imperial project.” How can we better appreciate the material implications of human sexuality when we come to interpret these comple...

© 2005 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2005 The Nautical Archaeology Society. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing Ltd SAILING THE PEPPER WRECK: UNDERSTANDING A PORTUGUESE INDIAMAN N UTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 31.2 Sailing the Pepper Wreck: a Proposed Methodology for Understanding an Early 17...

© 2008 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2008 The Nautical Archaeology Society. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing Ltd F. CASTRO ET AL.: MEDITERRANEAN LATEENAND SQUARE-RIGGED SHIPS (PART 1) NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 37.2 A Quantitative Look at Mediterranean Lateenand Square-Rigged Ships (P...

some situation, trying to understand what you’re looking at and how it all fits together. To do this, you must be careful to preserve the artifacts you find and respect and understand the cultural forces that produced them. But we don’t have to wait a thousand years to try to comprehend unfathomable artifacts; code becomes legacy code just about as soon as it’s written, and suddenly we have exa...