Scott Tucker

Ship Remains Identified in the St. Mary’s River Working and pleasure boats have plied Maryland waters for centuries.  No one knows how many wrecked or abandoned ships lay hidden In Maryland’s rivers and bays.  One suspected underwater site that was first mapped in 1994 gave up some of its secrets this summer.   Scott Tucker, archaeologist and doctoral candidate from University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, has been exploring what may be the remains of a ship in the St. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz,  a PhD student in maritime archaeology here in Southampton, will be presenting his paper on Tides across space at the CAA 2012 conference this week. Continue reading →