Excavation at Aguas Buenas, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, of a gunpowder magazine and the supposed campsite of Alexander Selkirk, together with an account of early navigational dividers
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Creator (person)
Takahashi, Daisuke
Caldwell, David H
Caceres, Ivan
Calderon, Mauricio
Morrison-Low, A D
Saavedra, Miguel A
Tate, Jim
Date published
December 12, 2007
Abstract
Excavations were undertaken of a ruined building at Aguas Buenas, identified as an 18th-century Spanish gunpowder magazine. Evidence was also found for the campsite of an early European occupant of the island. A case is made that this was Alexander Selkirk, a castaway here from 1704 to 1709. Selkirk was the model for Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. A detailed discussion is given of a fragment of copper alloy identifi ed as being from a pair of navigational dividers.
Journal title
Post-Medieval Archaeology
Volume
41
Issue
2
Publisher
Maney Publishing
ISSN
0079-4236
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Additional information In: David H Caldwell 'Finding Robinson Crusoe' Archaeology Scotland; Issue 27, WIN 2016