On the Black Sea: Diving Deep
This BBC World Service podcast features an interview with Professor Jon Adams.
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Photo Archives and Maritime Cliches
During last week’s Tweetchat @agi_mv asked about the use of satellite technology in identifying submerged sites and shipwrecks. The discussion that followed ended up on the beaches of south India about 10 years ago, beaches which Julian had identified kattumaram boats on from GoogleEarth images and on which Lucy, Julian and I (along with Dr Colin Palmer, Dr Selvakumar and a handful of other fantastically patient Indian colleagues) spent some weeks recording and researching fishing boats.
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Mud, glorious mud (and maybe some sand)
Understandably, there is often a focus on maritime archaeological sites that lie underwater and many of the most impressive or important ones, like the Mary Rose, or the Vasa are discussed during the shipwrecks course. We are also familiar with sites on land that have their origins in maritime worlds, ship burials like Sutton Hoo, or silted up harbour sites such as Myos Hormos in Egypt.
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Engaging people with maritime archaeology across the globe
We are now just about ready to press go on the next run of the shipwrecks course. This will be the third time we have run the programme, and it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on what we’ve learnt, what we hope to achieve in this next run and … to get feedback on what people think might be good to do next.
First, some numbers.
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The Shipwrecks Team would to raise awareness of our free course, ahead of its third run starting on Monday 1st February. Since you've liked us enough to visit our blog, we are inviting you to add your Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr support.
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Recording tool marks at Buckler’s Hard
Learners on our MOOC ‘Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds’ will already be familiar with our shipwrightery workshop at Buckler’s Hard in Hampshire (United Kingdom) through the steps on experimental archaeology and medieval seafaring in week 2. One of the main objectives of this workshop is for our students to use the tools of the trade and produce the tool marks they will be asked to interpret in their professional lives.
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Between the Seas: Shipwrecks of Saskatchewan, Canada
Having grown up on the Canadian prairies, as far from the ocean as a person in that country can get, people often find it funny that I am now a maritime archaeologist. There is a common misconception that people need to live near the sea the have it affect their lives, however even the most land locked of places depend on rivers, lakes and streams for food and transport.
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Answering your questions on Week 1
https://youtu.be/hBTHuoSGJqs
This week several members of the course team met to answer some of the key questions that have come out of the course this week.
Some of the questions that educators tackle include:
1.9. Salim Al Hajri: How do these names vary through time and space? I mean from place to place (Europe to Middle East to China) and from the Romans to nowadays?
Michael Smith: Maritime archaeology is the study of man-made objects, cultures, etc., in and around the sea.
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HMS Invincible dive
Thanks to Rodrigo, one of our new facilitators, for sharing this short video from last weekend's dive on Royal Navy's first HMS Invincible. The ship sank on Horse Tail Sand in the Eastern Solent in 1758.
The bow of the site has been scoured out, revealing the gun deck and various artefacts.
For more information about the site, please visit: http://www.maritimearchaeologytrust.
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Your relationship with the Sea.
We want to know about your views on maritime archaeology in your part of the world, whether that’s Britain or Bahrain, Europe or Uruguay.
One of the most exciting parts of the MOOC for the team at Southampton is the opportunity to hear more about people’s experience of and views about maritime archaeology and maritime heritage around the world.
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