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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.

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Maritime Archaeology  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   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 pastpolicecrime scene   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.)mobile phones   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.gravesiteshuman remains

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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

 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  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