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Bureau of Archaeological Research

2009 Archaeological and Biological Examination of the Marker 39 Wreck (8MO1931) off Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida. (.pdf, 2.6mb)

2009 Archaeological and Biological Examination of The Bronze Pin Wreck (8MO1879) off Grassy Key, Monroe County, Florida: an Interim Report. (.pdf, 2mb)

2007 Archaeological and Biological examination of “Rib Wreck” (8MO1880) off Vaca Key, Monroe County, Florida (.pdf, 3.4mb)

2006 Archaeological and Biological examination of “The Mystery Wreck” (8MO143) off Vaca Key, Monroe County, Florida (.pdf, 3.2mb)

2006 Archaeological and Biological examination of the Brick Wreck (8MO1881) off Vaca Key, Monroe County, Florida (.pdf, 3mb)

Underwater Archaeology

Bass, George F. (editor)
1972 A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology. New York: Walker and Company.

Burgess, Robert
1980 Man: 12, 000 Years Under the Sea. A Story of Underwater Archaeology. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.

Dean, Martin, Ben Ferrari, Ian Oxley, Mark Redknap, and Kit Watson (editors)
1992 Archaeology Underwater: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice. The Nautical Archaeology Society. Dorset, England: Henry Ling Ltd.

Delgado, James P.
1997 British Museum Encyclopeida of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology. London, England: British Museum Press.

Green, Jeremey
1990 Maritime Archaeology: A Technical Handbook. California: Academic Press Limited.

Lockery, Andy
1985 Marine Archaeology and the Diver. Toronto, Canada: Atlantis Publishing Company.

Marx, Robert F.
1975 The Underwater Dig: An Introduction to Marine Archaeology. New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc.

Muckelroy, Keith (editor)
1980 Archaeology Under Water: An Atlas of the World's Submerged Sites. London: McGraw-Hill.

Muckelroy, Keith
1978 Maritime Archaeology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Stone, David L.
1993 The Wrteck Diver's Guide to Sailing Ship Artifacts of the 19th Century. Vancouver, Canada: Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia.

St John Wilkes, Bill
1971 Nautical Archaeology: A Handbook. Great Britian: David and Charles: Newton Abbot.

Prehistoric Underwater Archaeology in Florida

Bullen, Ripley P.
1875 A Guide to the Identification of Florida Projectile Points, Revised Edition. Gainesville, Florida: Kendall Books.

Clausen, Carl J.
1975 The Early Man Site at Warm Mineral Springs, Florida. Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 2, pp. 191-213.

Clausen, C. J., A. D. Cohen, C. Emiliani, A. J. Holman, and J. J. Stipp
1979 Little Salt Springs, Florida: A Unique Underwater Site. Science, Vol. 203, No. 4381, pp. 609-614.

Cockrell, W. A. and Larry Murphy
1978 Pleistocene Man in Florida. Archaeology of Eastern North America, Vol. 6 , pp. 1-13.

Milanich, Jerald T. and Charles H. Fairbanks
1980 Florida Archaeology. New York: Academic Press.

Neill, W. T.
1964 Points and Extinct Animals in Florida. Florida Anthropologist, XVII, pp. 17-32.

Purdy, Barbara (editor)
1988 Wet Site Archaeology. Caldwell, New Jersey: The Telford Press.

Waller, Ben I.
1970 Some Occurrences of Paleo-Indian Projectile Points in Florida Waters. Florida Anthropologist, XXXIII, pp. 129-134.

Florida Shipwreck Archaeology

Barnette, Michael C.
2003 Shipwrtecks of the Sunshine State: Florida's Submerged History.

Bass, George F. (editor)
1988 Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas. London: Thames and Hudson.

Berg, Daniel and Berg, Denise
1991 Florida Shipwrecks: The Diver's Guide to Shipwrtecks Around the State of Florida and the Florida Keys New York: Aqua Explorers, Inc.

Burns, Jason M.
2003 The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor: THe Archaeology and History of the Norwegian Ship Catharine. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Clausen, Carl J.
1965 A 1715 Spanish Treasure Ship. Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Social Sciences 12.

Coleman, James C.
1995 USS Massachusetts (BB-2): One Hundred Years, Your Careers Florida: Friends of the USS Massachusetts (BB-2).

Holland, Keith V., Manley, Lee B., and Towart, James W. (editors)
1993. The Maple Leaf: An Extrodinary American Civil War Shipwreck. Florida: St. Johns Archaeological Expeditions. Inc.

Marx, Robert F.
1985. Shipwrecks in Florida Waters: A Billionn Dollar Graveyard. Florida: The Mickler House, Publishers.

McCarthy, Kevin M.
1992. Thirty Florida Shipwrecks. Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc.

Mondano, Mark R.
1991. Divers Guide to Shipwrecks: Cape Canaveral to Jupier Light. Hong Kong: Sandman Productions.

Reeves, Linda
2003. S.S. Inchulva: A Florida Shipwreck Rediscovered. Florida: Xlibris Corporation

Smith, Roger, Miller, James J., Kelley, Sean M., and Harbin, Linda G.
1997. An Atlas of Maritime Florida. Florida: University Press of Florida.

Smith, Roger C.
2002. 'Florida Frontiers: From Ice Age to New Age' in Ruppé, Carol V. and Barstad, Janet F. (eds.) International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Singer, Steven D.
1992. Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing. Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc.

Weller, Bob "Frogfoot"
1990. Famous Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys. Alabama: EBSCO Media.

Weller, Bob "Frogfoot"
2001. Galleon Alley: The 1733 Spanish Treasure Fleet. Florida: Cross Anchors Salvage.