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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In October 2019, eXXpedition launched a round-the-world sailing voyage that emphasized “citizen science” in understanding single-use plastic in our oceans and the impacts of those toxins on women’s health. The mission of the ongoing two-year trip—which features 30...
Plastic Adrift: Archaeology, Relations And Multiple Contexts (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For three decades now we have been noticing the presence of plastic in Portuguese beaches, a mixture of things forgotten by seasonal visitors and plastics that are adrift until washed ashore. While most archaeologists would only consider it an archaeological commodity once it is deposited in the beach we aim to go further and...