Living the life aquatic: a maritime archaeological odyssey – April 5th
With Titanic mania sweeping Southampton this month in memory of the 100th anniversary of its demise, Dr Helen Farr will provide a whirlwind tour of the development of seafaring and maritime activity from its origins in the Pleistocene, and our ancestors’ first open water crossings, to the cutting edge technology that maritime archaeologists deploy today. The technological development and the symbolic role of the ship within society will be explored alongside the developing discipline and challenges of maritime archaeology.