Preserving the Maritime Cultural Heritage: Digital Recording Applications on the Nineteenth-Century Schooner Equator

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The schooner Equator was originally built in 1888 in California by the renowned shipwright Matthew Turner and sailed in the South Pacific by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. After the southern journeys, the ship went through multiple redesigns for different purposes in the west American coast. These events made the ship a unique example and testament of modern maritime history. Because of its cultural and historical relevance, the Port of Everett kept the vessel since the second half of the twentieth century. However, the preservation of the hull is not feasible any longer and the local authorities have decided to disassemble it. Given these circumstances, a salvage archaeological project was executed to record and preserve all the information regarding the architectural features of the Equator. To accomplish this task, different methodologies were applied including aerial recording for photogrammetric processing with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and laser scanning through light detection and ranging (lidar). The poster seeks to present the results obtained from both processes and explore their possible applications in archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39663.0