naval archaeology (Other Keyword)
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During 2014 and 2015 NHHC's Underwater Archaeology Branch initiated several projects to document, study, and manage U.S. Navy sunken and terrestrial military craft. These projects consist of both research-driven surveys and basic assessments of new discoveries. This presentation highlights the Branch's current research initiatives, including the study of American Revolutionary War schooner Royal Savage, the suspected site of Commodore Perry's USS Revenge, the War of 1812 Chesapeake Flotilla...
Naval architecture of the Anémone Wreck (Saintes – Guadeloupe) (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Anémone Project Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) : Result of the first multi-year underwater archaeological excavation in the French West Indies 2015-2019", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This communication will go in details on the architectural characteristics of the Anémone. We aim to synthesize the data obtained after 5 years of excavation and architectural analysis, linked with the archives. The multiyear...
Preserving the U.S. Navy's Sunken Military Craft: Transcending Time and Space (2018)
The U.S. Navy maintains a program responsible for the management of its sunken military craft, which are distributed world-wide and extend temporally from the American Revolution through to the Nuclear Age. These multi-faceted submerged heritage sites are managed by the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command, which engages in archaeological field research, heritage management, artifact conservation, collections management, and outreach initiatives in furtherance...
Reconstructing Ships from Archaeological Ship Remains (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although it is often impossible to reconstruct ships from their archaeological remains with a fair degree of certainty, the interpretation of archaeological remains and the attempt to develop a plausible model of what an old ship might have been is an iterative learning exercise that can and should be public and participated. This...