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Review of the research programme on the Mortella IIIwreck (2010-2020, Corsica, France): A contribution to the knowledge of the Mediterranean naval architecture and material culture of the Renaissance.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), Instituto de Historia (IH), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, 28037, Spain
  • 2. NavLab Laboratorio di Storia Marittima e Navale, University of Genoa, Genoa, 16126, Italy
  • 3. Office du Patrimoine et de l'Archéologie du Canton de Neuchâtel (OPAN), Neuchâtel, 2068, Switzerland
  • 4. Groupe de Recherche en Archéologie Navale (GRAN), Toulon, 83800, France
  • 5. Department of History, Humanities and Education, University of Sassari, Sassari, 07100, Italy

Description

The Mortella wrecks are the remains of two navi, Genoese seagoing merchant ships, sunk in 1527 in the Bay of Saint-Florent (Upper-Corsica, France) during the Seventh Italian War. A programme of archaeological excavations and historical research has been held on one of them,   Mortella III, between 2010 and 2020. It has involved a multidisciplinary team around a European research project called ModernShip (Horizon 2020), whose objective is to shed light on Mediterranean shipbuilding during the Renaissance, a field still little known to this day.

At the end of these 10 years, the aim of the present article is to conclude this research programme with the presentation of a scientific review that complements a recently published monograph on the Mortella III wreck. This study presents the latest results on the ship's architecture obtained during the excavation of the wreck in 2019, including a study of the wood of the framework.

Finally, this article broadens our understanding of the nave presenting the results of a collaborative line of research on material culture with three studies in close connection with the ship architecture: artillery, anchors and ceramics.

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10.2307/j.ctvh1dv5c (DOI)
10.1007/s11457-020-09257-x (DOI)
10.1007/BF03377074 (DOI)
10.20350/digitalCSIC/13976 (DOI)
10.1111/j.1095-9270.1984.tb01176.x (DOI)
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.02.144 (DOI)
10.1111/j.1095-9270.1989.tb00200.x (DOI)
10.1111/j.1095-9270.1988.tb00620.x (DOI)

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