Maritime Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 3D annotated scans method was developed to answer the challenge of accurately recording a large number of archaeological ship timbers within the short timeframe of development-led excavations in Northern Germany. Since then, this approach to 3D recording was refined in different projects of varying nature. In 2022, the state...
An archaeological approach to historic shipwrecks in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (2013)
In 2010 the Museo del Fin del Mundo (Museum of the End of the World) of the city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, initiated a project with the goal of surveying 125 miles along the Atlantic coast of the island in order to record archaeological evidence of any human presence since prehistoric times until the late 19th century AD, when the first non-native people (mostly missionaries) settled in the region. This paper presents the first results of the archaeological study of historic shipwreck...
Archaeologically Assembling The Full Picture of the Political-Economy of Late 18th Century Colonial Trade Relations on the Margins of Empire from the Bisc-2 Shipwreck Site. (2013)
This paper will provide provisional conclusions drawn from the analysis of all our data within a particular methodological framework while identifying critical gaps that remain. We will first discuss how the BISC-2 site may provide new insights into the political-economy of trade at the permeable boarder of British and Spanish spheres of competing influence; and into the relationship between imperial centers and their often non-compliant peripheries. Finally, BISC-2 suggests a rethinking of...
Archaeology of the Atlantic Early Modern Seaports. An Approach Via CONCHA Project. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. CONCHA’s main goal is to address the different ways that port cities developed around the Atlantic from the late 15th to the early 18th century in relation to differing global, regional, and local ecological and economic environments. The project is framed around seven...
Archaeology of the Gold Rush Waterfront (2015)
Archaeological research conducted in the former, now land-filled Gold Rush waterfront of San Francisco has defined a rapidly developed port infrastructure and substantial remains of discarded material culture that comprises a several block wide and deep macro-site. Buried ships, collapsed buildings, pilings from wharves and piers, and discarded cargoes buried by urban expansion and the filling of the are have emerged periodically due to redevelopment since 1907 and discoveries continue well...
Archaeology of the Port des Morts Lighthouse Ruins (47DR497) – A Mid-19th Century Lighthouse Site (2017)
The Port des Morts ruins (47DR497) are from a Great Lakes lighthouse in operation for a brief nine years from 1849 to 1858. Located on Plum Island off the tip of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, this hastily constructed and poorly positioned lighthouse was home to William Riggins his wife Phebe and their growing family for all but the lighthouse’s final year. Historic documents suggest they lived a difficult frontier existence, but otherwise little is known about their time on the island. Now part of...
Becoming Jack Tar: The Vessel as a Center for the Construction of Identity (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vessels during the Age of Sail in the French maritime empire served multiple vital functions, both economical and cultural, and were the nexus of multiple important historical narratives, including wars, the peak of Atlantic piracy, and the transatlantic slave trade. However, the vessel did not...
Between Seascapes and Sandscapes: An Archaeological Approach of the Insular and Coastal Nautical Spaces in the Colombian Caribbean during the 18th and 19th Centuries (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Interdisciplinary approaches from maritime, coastal, island, nautical and underwater archaeology have been developed in recent years in Colombia, particularly on the island of Tierrabomba in Cartagena de Indias, the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina and La Guajira Peninsula...
Certifying Success: Sport Divers, Citizen Science, and Sustainability (2020)
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. Citizen science in maritime archaeology has the potential for astounding benefits. Not only do sport divers participate in authentic data gathering and educational opportunities about the values and ethics of underwater archaeology, they also become critical vectors...
Climate change and maritime cultural heritage. Perspectives and methodologies of approach in the Island of Tierra Bomba, Cartagena de Indias. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transient legacies of the past: Historical Archaeology in the Intertidal Zone", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Weather conditions are in constant interaction with the tangible and intangible heritage of communities, with climate being one of the factors that most influences the configuration of dynamics and meanings that are built in the territory. Based on different sources of research, this proposal aims...
Conciliating Kah Lituya: Future Investigations at Ltu.áa as a Case Study for Establishing a Marine Cultural Survey Program at Glacier Bay National Park (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tlingit lore describes a monster who enhabits the deep caverns at the mouth of Lituya Bay and shakes the water like a sheet creating a consistently tumultuous environment. The significance of this area encompasses both natural and cultural resources and is known for a 1700 ft tsunami that scoured the landscape. Culturally however,...
Digital Libraries in 3D for Maritime Archaeology: Dutch Merchant Ships 1595–1800 (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation considers the value of 3D digital libraries to support maritime archaeological investigations of historic vessels, focussed on Dutch ocean-going merchant ships (1595 to 1800). During this time the Netherlands rose to become a leading maritime power. Despite prolonged scholarly interest , typological...
Discovery and Survey of Seventeenth-Century Shipwreck Timbers Near Manzanita, Oregon (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Pacific Maritime History: Ships and Shipwrecks" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In August of 2020, timbers believed to be part of the Spanish Manila galleon shipwreck of the Santa Christo de Burgos were found in a sea cave on the coast of Oregon. The site is exposed only very briefly during extreme negative tides. Access to the sea cave is further complicated by an exposed hike along an eroding cliff face. Due to the...
Education in Maritime Archaeology: Universities, Capacity Building, and the Internet (2016)
The field of maritime archaeology exists within a dynamic socio-political world that constantly changes due to actions of those outside the field, such as legislation, funding, and public opinion. Education must suit the needs of students who will work in current and future conditions; however, many field schools and degree programs operate using paradigms from previous conditions. Registrant responses on MaritimeArchaeology.com show concern on what is being taught, significant gaps between...
Harbor Archaeology in Sergipe: Initial Results and Considerations (2016)
In this poster, we intend to discuss some results achieved by the project Harbor Archaeology in Sergipe: inventory and contextualization of structures, developed in the Federal University of Sergipe. We will highlight the remnants and structures identified along the Sergipe River, as well as shipwrecks that have been found in Real and in São Francisco Rivers, both bordering the state of Sergipe. The main goal of this project is to stablish the foundations for the development of a systematic...
Head Tells Tales – The Life and Times of Rodney, a Convict Transport Vessel Wrecked at Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea (2018)
Archival research, in conjunction with data obtained from a collaborative expedition to Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory, undertaken by the Silentworld Foundation and Australian National Maritime Museum, has revealed the likely wreck site of mid-19th century convict transport vessel, Rodney. Over its lifetime Rodney transported hundreds of convicts and government passengers (free settlers) to Australia. It was one of many privately-owned ships that undertook this work. However, these...
How the Evolution of Side Scan Sonar and Marine Technology Influenced the Development of Maritime Archaeology (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. The British in World War I were the first to recognize the applications of this new sound technology which would later be embraced by other militaries and would eventually find commercial applications mapping the seafloor for natural resources, which drove the technology into more compact, powerful sonar devices, but also add...
Iced Isolation: Opportunity and Desolation in America's Northern Frontier (2015)
Beginning 7,000 years ago, humans have engaged Lake Superior’s Southern Shore in different ways. Entrepreneurs, voyagers, immigrants, and society’s periphery have relished, and shattered, in Superior’s raw, unforgiving climate. The region has been a hotbed for cyclical social and economic change as different ethnic and demographic groups clashed in the ice and snow. This paper presents a unique piece of Lake Superior’s landscape, the Keweenaw Peninsula, as an "island of industry in a sea of...
The Impact of Cod Fishing and Trade on Coastal Development Strategies in Saint Pierre and Miquelon Archipelago (France, 17th-19th centuries) (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is the only French colony that is entirely devoted to the exploitation of cod fishing rights on the Grand Banks. Since the 17th century, it was the technical base of this activity and thus the starting point of the world cod trade. The...
In The Wake of Malouin Fishermen : Ceramic Evidence of the Transatlantic Triangular Cod Trade, 17th-18th centuries. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological collections in Canada from the 17th and 18th centuries contain North-Mediterranean ceramics, in contexts related to Saint-Malo fisheries. This paper retraces the route of Mediterranean ceramics to study triangular Atlantic trade and ceramic diffusion routes. To link these ceramics...
Lake Champlain Steamboat Archaeology: A 15-minute Primer. (2016)
A 120-mile-long ribbon of fresh water between Vermont, New York, and Quebec, Lake Champlain has long served as a convenient pathway for trade and communication through the interior of northeastern North America. The lake was at the forefront of the 19th century’s steam navigation revolution, starting with the launching of Vermont in 1809 and ending with the retirement of Ticonderoga in the early 1950s. This paper will briefly examine historical highlights of Champlain’s steamboat era and...
Lançar Ferro em Lisboa: A Study Of Anchors In The Lisbon Waterfront (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The following paper intends to disclose the results of the study of some anchors sets found in archaeological contexts, datable from the 15th century onwards in the Lisbon waterfront. Through the study of these archaeological materials of various sizes and appearances, we hope both to provide some useful data for the research on...
Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer – Interpreting the Historic Shipwreck Sites of Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea, through GIS (2018)
In 2017, maritime archaeologists from the Silentworld Foundation and Australian National Maritime Museum conducted a survey of historic shipwreck sites at Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory. The acquired data was utilised to build a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) project. Maritime archaeology was born of, and is continually improved by, technological advances. GIS has become yet another indispensible tool to the modern maritime archaeologist - integrating data ranging...
Leveraging Funding To Investigate our Past: NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Grants Program (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. NOAA Ocean Exploration is the only federal program dedicated to exploring the deep ocean, closing prominent gaps in our basic understanding of US deep waters and the seafloor and delivering the ocean information needed to strengthen the economy, health, and security of our nation. Since 2001, NOAA Ocean Exploration has funded maritime...
Long-Distance Contacts along the Coast of Greater Chiriquí (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Coastal Connections: Pacific Coastal Links from Mexico to Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The location of the Greater Chiriquí archeological region in southern Central America and the available and valuable resources in it (gold, coastal resources) were favorable for the emergence of a complex society that interacted with long-distance contacts for the acquisition of exotic goods. I highlight several places...