Since the start of the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck project in 1996, tens of thousands of artifacts have been recovered and many of those have received at least a preliminary level of analysis. Many more still lie on the seabed or remain encased in concretion at the QAR laboratory. Overall the QAR artifact assemblage reflects many aspects of early eighteenth-century maritime culture. Ship parts and equipment, arms, scientific, navigational and medical instruments, personal effects, and food preparation and storage items are all part of the inventory. By studying the artifacts, archaeologists are beginning to gain valuable insight into the period's naval technology, colonial provisioning, the slave trade, shipboard life, and the material culture of piracy.

As mentioned, much of the analysis provided here has been abstracted from preliminary reports and research conducted by project staff and associates. Where more in-depth analysis exists, either as a QAR project Technical Report or Bulletin or as an outside article available through the Researcher's Corner the reader is provided a link to the appropriate documents. The artifact section will be continually added to and updated as new research surfaces and more artifacts are recovered and cleaned. The QAR staff welcomes any comments or additional analysis concerning the QAR artifact assemblage and you are encouraged to contact us at qar@ncdcr.gov.

Artifact section contributors include: Dr. Linda Carnes-McNaughton, Dr. Runying Chen, Dr. David Clark, Dr. Jim Craig, Nathan Henry, Richard Lawrence, Dr. Lee Newsom, Eric Nordgren, Wayne Lusardi, Dave Moore, Susan Myers, Chris Southerly, Wendy Welsh, Dr. Mark Wilde-Ramsing, and Dr. Ned Woodall. For more detailed anlysis, readers are encouraged to vist this site's Technical Reports and Bulletins Series and the Researchers Corner. Wendy Welsh and Karen Browning provided the artifact photographs used here. The web layout, design, and implementation of this section were exclusively the work of Karen Browning in consultation and oversight by Dr. Mark Wilde-Ramsing.