Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jens Auer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 3D annotated scans method was developed to answer the challenge of accurately recording a large number of archaeological ship timbers within the short timeframe of development-led excavations in Northern Germany. Since then, this approach to 3D recording was refined in different projects of varying nature. In 2022, the state...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune. Yasumasa Ichikawa. Kevin Crisman. George Schwarz. Chris Sabick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the past 5 years small ROVs, or underwater drones, have become an inexpensive and accessible survey tool for maritime archaeologists. There are currently many capable models less than $3,000 USD that can operate at depths of 100m/330ft. The authors explored the possibility of using these affordable underwater drones for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morten Ravn.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the FaroArm-Rhino Archaeology Users Group (FRAUG) was founded in 2007 more than seven years of digital recording of ship-timbers had been conducted. Addressed the growing problem of agreeing on common standards in regard to digital documentation practices, FRAUG served as a platform for discussions and troubleshooting. Several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Massimiliano Ditta.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of the author's current PhD project, the so-called 3D annotated scans method is being applied to conserved nautical timbers from museum collections in Western Norway. The project aims to produce a detailed study of shipbuilding in W-Norway during the Late Iron Age; thus, high-resolution documentation of these timbers is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel A Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the expansive history of U.S. naval operations in the First and Second World Wars, the large combatant vessels reign supreme. Many major coastal cities in the United States have a battleship or aircraft carrier docked in prime tourist areas and dedicated funds for the maintenance of these behemoths. But their smaller brethren,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nigel Nayling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation introduces the SHA2023 Open Symposium Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology, providing some initial context for the symposium’s objectives and scope, and the structure of the presentations and concluding discussion. The symposium is seen as timely given the now widespread use of digital methods for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dostal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Researchers with the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University have utilized coordinate measuring machine-based 3D laser scanning to record and reconstruct four disarticulated wooden archaeological ships from Alexandria, VA between 2018 and 2022. This paper summarizes the laser scanning and data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisa Costa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The paper describes an operational working methodology to survey wooden artifacts in maritime archaeology, using photogrammetry and hand-held 3D laser scanning. These digital techniques are widely employed for a non-contact approach to the documentation of artifacts, due to their high-resolution and high-accuracy 3d recordings, which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pierre Poveda. Laetitia Cavassa. Vincent Dumas. Philippe Soubias. Giulia Boetto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Photogrammetry is widely recognised as a formidable improvement in the field of underwater archaeology, and presents many advantages, among which the possibility of recording quickly a large quantity of data. If the time gained in the documentation phase is appreciable, it also significantly impacted the time devoted to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Filipe Castro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although it is often impossible to reconstruct ships from their archaeological remains with a fair degree of certainty, the interpretation of archaeological remains and the attempt to develop a plausible model of what an old ship might have been is an iterative learning exercise that can and should be public and participated. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tori Falck.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Co-Author: Sarah Fawsitt, Terje Planke, Christian Rodum, Kristina Steen, Lars Stålegård, Hilde Vangstad The making of reconstructions of the vessels we investigate, undeniably increases our knowledge on the qualities of the objects. In this paper we would like to present the making of three different reconstructions of the same...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Mason. Christin Heamagi. Nigel Nayling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Spanish Galleon Santiago de Galicia was constructed in Italy in the 1590s and sank outside the port of Ribadeo, Galicia in 1597. This important wreck, lying in 10m of water, has been investigated by a multi-disciplinary team led by Dr Miguel San Claudio since 2011. Targeted photogrammetry has been undertaken since 2015, aiming to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pat Tanner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With digital technologies for the documentation, reconstruction and analysis of archaeological boat and ship finds becoming the norm, this presentation examines those processes from the viewpoint of a shipbuilder and seafarer. It will examine what information is being documented and recorded. How that information is being interpreted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pero Prebeg. Smiljko Rudan. Simun Svilicic. Irena Radic-Rossi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The hull of a ship at an archaeological site is almost always incomplete, so the resulting reconstructed hull lines inevitably include some uncertainties. These uncertainties contain the potential to improve the ship's theoretical performance. Hull definition based on analytically defined waterline curves allows easy generation and...