A New Machine (Part 1): Scientific and Technological Applications in Underwater Archaeology

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2013

Other Keywords
Remote Sensing • Shipwrecks • Conservation • Survey • Equipment • Artifacts • Sonar • Underwater Survey • 3D • Interdisciplinary

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Paleoindian period to the latter 1800s

Geographic Keywords
North America • Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)

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  • Artifact Conservation: Problems, Solutions, and Explorations (2013)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Bratten.

    Artifact conservation is a necessary step for most archaeology projects, especially those involving the recovery of objects from underwater sites. In addition to stabilization, laboratory treatment often aids in the interpretations of artifacts.  Based on two decades of laboratory work, this paper will discuss conservation lessons learned in terms of equipment and techniques.  Information will be provided related to the choice of an x-ray machine, the fabrication of electrolysis tanks, the...

  • Data and metadata definition of underwater 3D archaeological features (2013)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matteo Lorenzini. Pier Giorgio Spanu.

    The application of 3D technologies to archaeological research has been the subject of intense experimentation carried out by different scientific groups. Activity has focused in particular on the use of tools for the acquisition and  reconstruction of 3D archaeological features or sites. So far researchers' interest has been aimed mainly at the exploitation of the potential of 3D technologies for virtual reality and the visualization of archaeological features and artifacts, for which many good...

  • Discoveries of Nautical Chart Making: NOAA Ship Fairweather - 2012 Arctic Region Expedition (2013)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Janelle Harrison.

    The NOAA Ship Fairweather is a hydrographic survey vessel that collects multi-beam bathymetry and side scan sonar data to produce today’s nautical charts which aid in the safe navigation of vessels along the Coast of Alaska, through the Bering Sea and into the Arctic Region. These types of cutting edge technologies are not only used to produce nautical charts, but are also methods utilized in nautical archaeology to discover historic shipwrecks. This paper discusses the findings and methods used...

  • A new method of rapidly surveying submerged archaeological sites. (2013)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark W Holley.

    Since 2007, the Underwater Archaeology Program at Northwestern Collage (USA) has been surveying submerged cultural resources both in America and Europe by utilizing sector scanning sonar equipment developed by Kongsberg-Mesotech (Vancouver, Canada). The results of these surveys have been stunning. This paper will explore the catalog of archaeological sites surveyed, methodology of deployment and how this new equipment can contribute to the development of rapid, highly detailed underwater...

  • A Provisional Cultural Resource Survey off Northern Alaska (2013)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James D. Moore III.

    The United States' Bureau of Ocean Energy Managemnt (BOEM) will require comprehensive and integrated scientific information from the northern Alaska region's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to improve regulatory decisions and environmental analyses that will be pertinent for allowing lease sales in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas to energy industry representatives.  BOEM is also manadated to mitigate the effects of its actions on submerged cultural resource materials.  By joining the National Ocean...

  • Remote Sensing of Lakes in Telemark, Norway (2013)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Thomas. Pal Nymoen. Fredrik Soreide. Brett Phaneuf.

    In the summer of 2012, the research charity ProMare and its partners at the Norsk Maritimt Museum returned to Lake Bandak in the Telemark region of Norway to revisit the two-dozen new shipwrecks that were discovered during their 2010 field season. That year, sonar imaging revealed wrecks in excellent condition and from many periods – from what could be vessels as old as Bronze Age log-boats to more modern 19th-century trading ships nearly 100 feet in length.  Due to the lack of detail provided...