Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Over the past 50 years, maritime archaeology in Australasia has provided significant evidence and insights to Indigenous, domestic and international seafaring contexts. Recent studies of Australasia’s diverse maritime cultural heritage focus on ships and seafaring through detailed recording, study and interpretation of extant hull remains, ship construction, and iconography. This work goes beyond single-site approaches of limited temporal and geographical dimensions, and instead enquires into vernacular and industrial technology, and the socio-economic complexity of seafaring and watercraft in general. This session invites presentations of recent Australasian projects that contribute to our understanding of seafaring and shipbuilding, and that offer future regional directions for maritime archaeology in an internationally relevant thematic context.
Other Keywords
Underwater Archaeology •
Cultural Interaction •
Shipwrecks •
Ship Construction •
Shipwreck •
social network analysis •
Copper alloy •
seafaring •
Australasia •
copra trade
Geographic Keywords
Australasia •
French Republic (Country) •
Kingdom of Belgium (Country) •
Bailiwick of Guernsey (Country) •
Oceania •
Principality of Monaco (Country) •
Swiss Confederation (Country) •
Bailiwick of Jersey (Country) •
Principality of Andorra (Country) •
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Country)
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Connecting Sunken Actors: Social Network Analysis in Maritime Archaeology (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. ‘Social Network’ has become a popular term thanks to online tools as Facebook or Twitter, allowing us to connect with everyone. Specific to archaeology, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is well established as a method, but its theoretical application in Maritime Archaeology is an incipient initiative. This paper presents the...
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Examining nineteenth century British colonial-built ships, HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox: two case studies from New Zealand (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores changes in design and construction technologies relating to British colonial-built ships in the nineteenth century. HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox were built on the banks of the River Hooghly, India, with teams of local and foreign labour. HMS Buffalo was constructed in 1813 and served the British Navy before...
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Mystery Shipwrecks of the Great Barrier Reef: Copper Alloy Analyses (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over 1000 ship and aircraft wrecks lie scattered across the Queensland coastline. While some are infamous, others are listed as unidentified sites, known only by association to the reefs they are located on. Within the Queensland State Maritime Archaeology Collection, housed at the Museum of Tropical Queensland are over...
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Parametric Seismic Profilers— Their Application To in-situ Management Of Underwater Archaeological Sites At Risk From Degradational Loss Of Shallow-buried Materials. (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The application potential of parametric seismic profilers (SBPs) to in-situ management of underwater archaeological sites at risk from degradational loss of shallow-buried materials is presented. This approach is based on the process driven in-situ preservation and research frameworks advocated by the UNESCO 2001 Convention...
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Shipwreck of Colonial Making: The preliminary study of a Tasmanian-built ship wrecked in Victorian waters (1841-1853) (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological fieldwork in Port Phillip, Victoria, identified a small shipwreck site near the Rye Jetty as that of the schooner Barbara. Preliminary investigations demonstrate that the vessel, built in northern Tasmania in 1841, had a deep-drafted hull with a double layer of hull planking, was sheathed with a...
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The Wreck of Alexa: The International Copra Trade and Australia’s Last Commercially Operated Square-rigged Sailing Vessel (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1929, the steel-hulled barquentine Alexa was destroyed by fire while loading copra, a notoriously unstable cargo, in Butaritari, Kiribati. The ship was the last commercially operated square-rigged sailing vessel on Australian articles. The Dutch-built, Chinese-owned, New Zealand registered, multi-nationally crewed ship...