Pacific (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan J Kovacs. Calvin Mires. David Ullman. John Ben Roberts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Starting in 2022, DPAA has partnered with Marine Imaging Technologies, to conduct phase I and II projects in Guam, Chuuk, and Philippines, looking for and documenting various WWII aircraft. Some of these sites present logistical challenges, such as high seas, fast currents, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominic Bush.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have increasingly examined the natural forces that threaten submerged cultural heritage resources. For metallic sites, such as sunken steamships and aircraft, corrosion has garnered a considerable amount of this interest. While general corrosion resulting from exposure to seawater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James P. Delgado.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the fall of 2023, a NOAA-funded mission by the Ocean Exploration Trust and other partners conducted a series of telepresence-assisted remotely operated vehicle assessments of three sites from the pivotal WWII naval battle of Midway. The carriers USS Yorktown, HIJMS Akagi, and HIJMS Kaga, all previously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Grinnan. Mike Thomin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Toward engaging local communities and the broader public, the 2023 NOAA Ocean Exploration project “Exploring Deepwater World War II Battlefields in the Pacific Using Emerging Technologies” prioritized the inclusion of citizen scientists and the production of several public outreach products. While the history...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B. Churchward.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick D. Nunn.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only H. E. Maude.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher M. Stevenson. Georgia Lee. F.J. Morin.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Thegn N. Ladefoged. Michael W. Graves.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Photogrammetry-based 3D recording was conducted on nine submerged WWII American and Japanese wrecks in 2017 and again in 2023. The authors used the scaled 3D models in CloudCompare, a point cloud analysis software, to visualize and quantify the differences between the two years. In this paper, the authors will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don E. Dumond.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick D. Nunn.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans K. Van Tilburg. Daniel Wagner. Alba Mazza.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On 29 September 1941, a Havoc A-20 bomber aircraft departed the island of O`ahu for a routine training mission. Following engine failure, the plane crashed into the ocean, and the pilot and observer were lost. In March 2011, researchers from the Hawai`i Undersea Research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher D. Green.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2014, the skull of the famous Kanak rebel, Chief Ataï, was restituted to the Kanak peoples by the French government. Since then, France has been at the center of international restitution debates, especially those in Benin, however less consideration has been given to restitution to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Irwin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DPAA projects often encounter challenges unique to the intersection of archaeology and the accounting mission. Given the breadth and scope of the accounting mission, the effort to locate and recover missing US servicemembers from past conflicts takes DPAA partners all over the globe. But in the Pacific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Spanish Derrotero General del Mar del Sur atlases and their English derivatives, the Hack atlases, contain a trove of cartographic and historical information regarding the Pacific coasts of the Americas. Scattered today in repositories worldwide, these 17th century pictorial and annotated volumes depicted all the major towns,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Junco. Silvina Vigliani.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation deals with an analysis model for the archaeological study of the colonial port of Acapulco with an emphasis on the temporality of the landscape, that is, that which emerges from those who, through their activities, carry out the process of social life, being intrinsic to the conformation of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason T. Raupp. Jeremy Borrelli. Ryan Bradley. Will Nassif.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A team of archaeologists and marine scientists with Ships of Discovery investigated the remains of a wooden shipwreck off the island of Guam. Identified through a remote sensing survey, preliminary research suggested the site to be the wreck of the whaleship Asia, lost at Guam in 1856. Recent investigations at the site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison M Campo. Justin A Pyle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During WWII from 20–23 November 1943, U.S. forces invaded and fought for control of the Japanese-occupied Betio Island in the Battle of Tarawa. The battle resulted in the loss of 1,020 U.S. service members, with over 400 still remaining unaccounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is responsible for the relocation,...