A Brief History of Podcasting This blog post, the first in a very long time is going to be much more conversational in tone. Over the now eight years of this blog's existence...eight years! That's something! Thanks for being on this journey with me. There have been several occasions where the author of JaySea Archaeology … Continue reading On the Air with JaySea Archaeology
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Prologue: A Solemn Anniversary As of this writing, this past year (2022) marks the 10th anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Bounty in Hurricane Sandy back in 2012. The sad thing is even within the maritime community little marked the anniversary of such a tragic shipwreck, an amazing survival, and heroic rescue. 29 October … Continue reading The First Bounty Replica
In Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock revisits the Bimini Road, an impressive coastal stone structure in the Bahamas islands, just off Florida. The structure has been a favourite of Atlantis theorists for a long time, and Hancock uses it as part of his evidence that there was a now lost technologically advanced civilisation during the last ice age, whose survivors helped our more recent ancestors build the society in which we live now.
Hancock’s discussion of the Bimini Road, or Wall, as it’s sometimes called, gives us a great opportunity to explore one of the core questions of pseudoarchaeology: Is it possible? Let’s start by saying that when someone asks “is it possible?” in archaeology, the answer is almost always yes.
Our knowledge of the past is very imperfect. We can’t be present to observe events and people in the past, of course. The traces left behind, especially after thousands of…
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"She is like nothing now afloat." Harper's Weekly, 23 October 1858 Another Ambitious Design This is another topic that I have long wanted to discuss here on the blog, the Winan's Cigar Ships or Cigar Steamers. The story of Ross and his son Thomas Winans and their cigar ships is similar to the previous blog … Continue reading Iron Monsters: The Winans Cigar Ships
Riverine Highways As seen many times and places on this blog, historical research can lead one to surprising and unexpected places. I had started researching this story years ago before I started JaySea Archaeology Blog, and only now with access to new data, I was able to place the fragments of this story together into … Continue reading A Steamboat at Aztalan
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