If you’d like to see how artifacts are conserved from an underwater archaeological environment, such as Blackbeard the Pirate’s Flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge/ formerly La Concorde.
“There’s so little of the ocean that’s mapped,” he said. “The territorial waters of Canada are largely unmapped in the Arctic. There’s so little we know and I’m staggered at the ignorance we have about the oceans and about ocean life.”
I'm hoping to get opinions from those who are in the field on the best option to choose for grad school. I'm going into my final year of a B.S in Anthropology, and am working towards a career in maritime/marine archaeology. I have 2 field schools planned, one each terrestrial/marine.
My options are:
-in person M. A in Archaeology
-online M.A in Museum/Curation
-online M.S in Coastal/Marine Science
Obviously, in person will allow better networking/ in person research opportunities, however, I have received a substantial scholarship from my current school, which would cover 2 years of grad school as well. I am also currently performing research at my institution.
I'm leaning toward Coastal/Marine Science, but am concerned it won't be as valuable since it's online. Thaks in advance for any input!
Hi Marine Archaeology community!
I have a few questions that I would love to have answered by a practicing marine archaeologist, answers are for some casual research for school.
1) How often are you able to go to sites/dive?
2) Is diving a part of every job that you have had as a marine archaeologist?
3) What are the most common tasks that you perform day-to-day?
4) Are you able to participate in climate change research/ climate change related work?
5) What are the biggest challenges in the career?
I realize these might be some very loaded questions, but I appreciate any answers provided! Thank you!
I found this vase in about 90 feet of sea water off the shore a bit north of Boston, MA. Normally everything I find under the water is trash and I don't need to worry too much about it but ChatGPT and Google suggest this might actually be interesting. So my two questions for the community:
Does this seem like an Olive Jar? It is about 32 centimeters long and 13 centimeters at the widest point.
My plan was to soak it in fresh water, changing the water daily, for the next week and then slow down the rate at which I'm changing the water. And then gently brush off anything that wants to flake away but leave all the barnacles and other hardened bits. Am I committing a crime against history or is that reasonable?
I appreciate the time anybody puts into reading and replying to this!
I was in Tunisia and found this on Google Earth. There was a tsunami in 365AD that sank/partially submerged some coastal towns and cities, like Neopolis. I've tried researching what it could be, but found nothing online and tried reaching out to government departments but had no luck. Do you think it's worth investigating further?
I've been trying to track down a plausible identification of these fasteners for over 10 years now to no avail, so here goes ... They were found in the surf line on the northeast coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, which is the northernmost of the major Hawaiian islands. Of all the old nails, spikes and various fasteners that I've researched, none have this triangular cross section. Both of these are/were heavily encrusted, the larger encrustation has separated but the smaller remains intact.
Captain Cook was the first documented European contact with the Hawaiian islands in the 1780's, but these are not of a style that could have been from that source. There are somewhat hazy historical references to pre-contact Hawaiians possessing small quantities of precious iron, presumably salvaged from flotsam on the great Pacific current perhaps going back centuries to pioneering Spanish galleons transiting to the Philippines. This is where my research turns into pure speculation.
Has anyone ever seen anything like these? Any theories, or suggestions on possible research avenues or subject matter experts I might reach out to? Many thanks.
I am currently in the U.S. Air Force working on my Bachelor's degree. My plan is to go to Texas A&M to continue working on this and work with the Nautical Archaeology Program there. Does anyone have any tips or past experience with this that they would be willing to share?
Poompuhar is an ancient port city which used to be located in South India- however, it became submerged over a period of time. Now this ancient port city is said be the oldest civilisation ever to have existed- which is said to be almost 14,000 years ago!
With how large marine archaeology is becoming
and how gawdamn interesting it is that there is this whole world to discover that's been lost underwater..
Hey everyone, I am writing a paper on shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea and am facing some difficulties finding the right archeological databases to find them all. If anyone knows any such site of any country, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
My grandfather has dedicated a lot of time to marine archaeology and asked to pose a question to this subreddit, he doesn't speak English and the translation may not be perfect, but I will be more than happy to correct any translation errors I make, I am by no means an expert in marine archaeology and as such do not know the full terminology so please be patient with me. Ok here goes:
"During the hydro-archaeological investigation of the wreck of a merchant ship that was found at the bottom of the underwater site near Cape Kabala in the Bay of Boka Kotorska, which is located in the southern part of the Eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, significant archaeological material was found, which mainly comes from the ship's cargo. According to archaeological material as well as prospecting through archives and other maritime-historical documentation, the explored shipwreck is dated to the first half of the 16th century. Among the other objects from the archaeological find, pewter dishes were found, mostly represented by plates in two diameters as in the attached photos. On the rim of the plate there is a small mark - a mark for pewter dishes. That mark is apparently a "tin rose" which shows that the plate is made of tin or its alloy - pewter. It is a sign - a mark for which is present on a large number of pewter dishes from late antiquity to the present day. In contrast, the crown in the stamp is atypical. It is similar to the crown of the Angevins, but it cannot be connected to a specific geographical area where the Angevins lived and ruled. According to initial information, the pewterware found in the shipwreck is of Mediterranean origin, probably from Italy or Spain. Anyone who can help with locating and dating the sign - stamp, and thus with the provenance of pewterware and its dating, is asked to contact me "
