Fish Trap / Weir (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
A structure designed for catching fish. Sometimes constructed as a fence or enclosure of wooden stakes or stones, placed in a river, lake, wetland or tidal estuary.
26-27 (27 Records)
In 2005, SITK invited the National Park Service’s (NPS) Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) to conduct a Systemwide Archeological Inventory Program (SAIP) parkwide inventory at the park’s Fort Site Unit. This unit incorporates 57 acres of rainforest and nearly 55 acres of wetlands, Indian River channel, and tidal flats. The SAIP’s (and the SITK project’s) goals are to conduct systematic, scientific research to locate, evaluate, and document archeological resources on National Park system lands....
Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk: Managing Natural and Human Impacts (2006)
The ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) was founded in Australia in 1991 by ICOMOS Australia. The founding president was Graeme Henderson, director of the Western Australia Maritime Museum at Fremantle. The birth of the committee was in reaction to the pressing needs brought to light by the discovery and subsequent exploitation of the remains of the Titanic: it was now evident that technologies capable of working at great depth threatened both known and...