Shipwrecks and the Public: Getting People Engaged with their Maritime History
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Shipwrecks and the Public: Getting People Engaged with their Maritime History," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Due to the inherent difficulties of public access to submerged archaeological sites, an effective public outreach strategy is one of the primary responsibilities of nautical archaeologists. A series of recent shipwreck archaeology projects in North America are linked by similar efforts of public involvement. These projects studied 18th- and 19th- century shipwrecks in the public eye by enthusiastically engaging the local public in project details. Incorporating the public can be as simple as giving public presentations or as complicated as including local divers in field schools or diving projects. One of the more challenging aspects of public outreach is balancing public involvement with adequate data accumulation. The projects in this session will discuss the creative ways they incorporated the public while ensuring project goals continued to be met.
Other Keywords
Conservation •
Public Archaeology •
Nautical Archaeology •
public •
Lake Champlain •
Underwater Archaeology •
Steamboats •
Shipbuilding •
Schooner •
Shipwrecks
Temporal Keywords
Early 19th Century •
Historical Period •
1832 •
19th Century •
Early to Mid 19th Century •
late 18th-early 19th c.
Geographic Keywords
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) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-9 of 9)
- Documents (9)
- Basin Harbor Wreck Field School 2018 (2019)
- Community Involvement in the Management of Submerged Cultural Resources on Lake Champlain (2019)
- Construction of the CityPlace Schooner (2019)
- Improved Accessibility of Submerged Cultural Materials through ArcGIS StoryMapping (2019)
- Public Engagement at the Conservation Research Laboratory (2019)
- Public Nautical Archaeology of the Phoenix (II) and City Place Schooner Projects (2019)
- Shipboard Life aboard Phoenix II: Conserving and Interpreting the Artifacts from Lake Champlain’s Fifth Steamboat (2019)
- The Spread of Cholera Throughout North America in 1832 via Inland Waterways (2019)
- The State of the Inland Sea: a primer to the submerged cultural resources of Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River and the state of studies in Great Lakes Shipbuilding (2019)