Texas A&M’s Quest To Save An Alamo Cannon
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By Grant Hawkins, Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences? </p>
<p><a href="
https://www.thealamo.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Alamo[/url], a symbol of Texas’ rich history, is home to many artifacts from its storied past. Among these is a unique battle cannon that recently became the focus of an intense preservation effort led by experts from the? <a href="
https://artsci.tamu.edu/anthropology/index.html" rel="nofollow">Department of Anthropology[/url]? at Texas A&M University.</p>
<p>The initiative, recently highlighted in an episode of? <a href="
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocQmyEHzzyQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast[/url], hosted by Emily Baucum, came to life when Alamo Senior Researcher and Historian? Kolby Lanham approached? Dr. Christopher Dostal, an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas A&M, and? Kimberly Breyfogle ’23, a Ph.D. student in the? <a href="
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/nautarch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nautical Archaeology Program[/url], to collaborate on the project.? </p>
<p>“Our lab primarily deals with material from underwater archaeological sites, and because so many things that are underwater happen to be ships, we deal with a lot of cannons,” said Dostal, a former submarine sailor in the U.S. Navy who also serves as director of the? <a href="
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/nautarch/crl/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Conservation Research Laboratory[/url]? at Texas A&M. “It was a natural fit for us to help out with the Alamo project.”</p>
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