Reconstruction of the World Trade Center Ship

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 2010, excavators discovered the remains of an 18th-century vessel below the foundation of the World Trade Center in New York City. The wreck was excavated and sent to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University for conservation and documentation. As part of that documentation, researchers are reconstructing the vessel through a variety of different methods, including using Rhinoceros, a 3D CAD modeling software program, to prepare 3-dimensional models of the ship. This presentation will discuss the methodology used to reconstruct the World Trade Center ship in Rhinoceros and the manner in which the process informed, and was influenced by, other reconstruction techniques.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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