Ship reconstruction (Other Keyword)

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Are Digital 3D Tools Better Than Traditional Methods? New Perspectives on Approaching Maritime Archaeology (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the past decade, digital recording methods such as photogrammetry and LiDAR have been increasingly applied to the field of maritime and nautical archaeology. However, as new digital tools become more prevalent in these disciplines, traditional research methods are being used less frequently. The question arises:...


Beyond material culture: virtual ship reconstruction (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiago M Fraga.

In the case of virtual ship reconstruction, the boundaries between fiction and science are hard to define. In attempting a ship reconstruction, the freedom provided by computer-assisted endeavors often clashes with the limitations of the historical archaeology data. Drawing on the expertise derived from several case studies, some ground rules are proposed in the hope of locating the border between these two approaches that will keep proposed reconstructions in the realm of science.


The Egadi 10 Warship: From Excavation To Exhibition (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mateusz Polakowski.

The warships that took part in the Battle of the Egadi Islands (241 BC) have been investigated for over 10 years. The Egadi Islands Survey Project, a joint project of the Soprintendenza del Mare - Sicily and RPM Nautical Foundation aims to survey and excavate the battle site in order to better understand the events that took place at the Egadi Islands Battle. Interdisciplinary research and new technologies have allowed these studies to pursue new areas of inquiry previously unavailable....


Laser Scanning as a Methodology for the Recording and Reconstruction of Archaeological Ships (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dostal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Researchers with the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University have utilized coordinate measuring machine-based 3D laser scanning to record and reconstruct four disarticulated wooden archaeological ships from Alexandria, VA between 2018 and 2022. This paper summarizes the laser scanning and data...


New Investigations into the Radford Wreck: Interpreting a Candidate for Cape Lookout’s Lost Whaler (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay M Wentzel.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Radford Wreck, CLS0006, is a 3.6 x 1.5 meter portion of ships’ stern located at the mouth of a shallow creek in North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore. Efforts to determine the vessel’s identity suggest the Provincetown, Massachusetts fishing schooner Seychelle a potential candidate. Wrecked on Cape Lookout during its maiden voyage to the Hatteras whaling grounds in 1879,...


Reconstructing an Eighteenth-Century Brig from Historical Photographs (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel E. Bishop.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and On Going Projects at the J Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Royal Navy brig Duke of Cumberland was built to counter the French presence on Lake Champlain during the Seven Years' War. In 1909, its remains were raised to attract people to Fort Ticonderoga when it was opened to the public as a heritage site. Unfortunately, its timbers were not...