What do these dots represent?
La Belle
Shipwreck of La Salle's
Ship
DR. SOURCE
PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La
Salle
• In 1682, French explorer, La Salle sailed down
the Mississippi River and claimed it for the
French.
• He later returned to
North America to set
up a settlement.
• He ended up being
shipped wrecked in
Texas.
Expedition
History
 Explore
the shipwreck
Maritime Archaeology
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Maritime archaeology (also known as marine
archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology
as a whole that specifically studies human
interaction with the sea,[1] lakes and rivers
through the study of associated physical
remains, be they vessels, shore side facilities,
port-related structures, cargoes, human remains
and submerged landscapes.[2] A specialty within
maritime archaeology is nautical archaeology,
which studies vessel construction and use.
Forensic Archaeology
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Forensic archaeologists are employed by police and other agencies
to help locate evidence at a crime scene using the skills normally
used on archaeological sites to uncover evidence from the past
Buried small items or personal effects from a victim of crime, which
may be used to corroborate a statement or contain other evidential
value. This group includes evidence buried by a perpetrator of a
crime to hide their involvement (e.g., weapons, money, mobile
phones, etc.)
Potential gravesites, forensic archaeology attempts to locate and
recover any human remains whilst also recording all evidence in
association with the remains to reconstruct events that took place
prior to the burial of the victim or victims. The grave may be sought
as part of an investigation of an unsolved crime or may in some rare
cases result from information gained from an individual already
convicted of the crime in the absence of a grave.
Cofferdam
Excavation
Archeology
Conservation
Artifact
Brass
Bronze
Primary Source
Primary Source
 an
object, image, or document created by
a person who witnessed or participated in
an event; an artifact. Examples: journal,
tool, ship’s log.
Secondary
Source
Secondary Source
 an
object, image, or document, including a
replica of an artifact, or source image
produced by a person who was not
present at the event, but who studied the
background information to be able to write
about it or make a likeness of the actual
artifact.
Learning from the past
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The Belle shipwreck is unique in North America. While
many sunken ships have yielded silver and gold, no
other shipwreck has more clearly revealed what it took to
build a colony. Few if any in the United States have
contained the quantity and variety of material found on
La Belle. The galleries of artifacts and other remains
presented in this section are, in essence, a 17th-century
time capsule, poignantly representing the hopes, fears,
and vision of the French explorer, La Salle, and his
colonists. More than one million artifacts from the Belle
shipwreck have been conserved and catalogued, and
the ship's hull has been fully reassembled
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