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For the past few years, the National Park Service has been involved with the Slave Wrecks Project, an international multi-agency effort to document sites related to the International Slave Trade. Student and academic representatives from Mozambique and Senegal participated in a workshop, supported by the U.S. State Department, where information, techniques, and perspectives were exchanged during a 10-day project hosted by the NPS at Buck Island National Reef Monument and Christiansted National...
Identification and Assessment of Subsided and Drowned Prehistoric Archaeological Sites, Lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain, Southeastern Louisiana (2015)
From 2010 to 2014, archaeologists from Coastal Environments, Inc., conducted several remote-sensing surveys within Lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain in an effort to locate the remains of drowned prehistoric terrestrial sites that once existed prior to subsidence and shoreline transgression. In this effort, it has been critical to interpret the remote-sensing data within the established geologic and geomorphic contexts of the region. Several submerged and buried high-probability landforms and...
The New York District’s Four Shipwrecks Monitoring Program (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. Since 2000, the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has been monitoring four shipwrecks as a part of their Atlantic Coast of New Jersey Cultural Resource Monitoring Program. The objective of this program is to determine whether, and to what extent, burial by beach renourishment sand impacts and/or protects the resources...
Operation D-Day Mapping Expedition (2016)
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched the largest amphibious assault in history. In the first 24 hours, over 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported 160,000 Allied troops in their attempt to land on a 50 mile stretch of beach in Normandy. Almost 70 years later, over the course of 27 days in July and August of 2013, a team of archaeologists, hydrographers, remote-sensing operators, divers, and industry representatives surveyed over 511 km2 off beaches in Normandy. The team identified over 350...
Realizing Autonomy: Building the Capacity of Senegal’s First Underwater Archaeologists (2018)
In April and May of 2017, two National Park Service (NPS) staff from the Submerged Resources Center (SRC) joined Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) staff and post-graduate students in Dakar, Senegal. The three-week project was a response to a request for technical assistance by the U.S. State Department, UCAD, and other partners for underwater archaeological training and capacity building as part of the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP). While in Senegal, SRC staff contributed to ongoing marine...
Search for the Clotilda, Mobile River Shipwreck Survey, 2018 Fieldwork Recap (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, a team of archaeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP), National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Archaeological Center (SEAC), NPS Submerged Resources Center (SRC), George Washington University, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture (SINMAAHC), National Geographic Society, and SEARCH conducted a...
Site Formation Processes in the Mobile River: Analysis of Shipwreck Acoustic Imagery (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. In 2018, SEARCH archaeologists conducted archaeological investigations including a remote-sensing survey in the Mobile River near Twelve Mile Island, Mobile, Alabama. The survey resulted in the identification of 12 previously unknown shipwrecks and the relocation of another three previously known submerged cultural resources....
Underwater Mobile: An Investigation of Three Civil War-Era Ironclads (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, SEARCH archaeologists conducted multiple marine remote-sensing surveys utilizing a magnetometer, side-scan sonar, and sub-bottom profiler near Mobile, Alabama. The surveys focused on relocating and assessing the condition of three Civil War-era ironclads: USS Tecumseh near the mouth of Mobile Bay, and CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa approximately five miles north of Mobile in...