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DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul F Johnston.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Underwater Archaeology In The 21st Century: From Humble Beginnings To Integration With Anthropology And Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Smithsonian has engaged in underwater archaeology and its forebears since the 1950s, starting with Dr. Mendel Peterson’s explorations of multiple Caribbean shipwrecks. In the mid-1970s, the Smithsonian and US Navy recovered propulsion machinery from the...