The Timbers of the Frigate Santa María Magdalena (Eighteenth Century): A Spanish Warship in History and Archaeology

The case study of the eighteenth-century Spanish frigate Santa Maria Magdalena constitutes one of the opportunities given to the ForSEAdiscovery project team to approach the subject of shipbuilding and timber supply in the Iberian Empires of the early modern age, in an interdisciplinary way, through the combination of efforts of three different disciplines: history, through the research of written sources; archaeology, through the collection and study of the material evidence of ships; and wood science, through the analysis of timber samples from archaeological sites and old living trees.