On the Black Sea: Diving Deep
This BBC World Service podcast features an interview with Professor Jon Adams.
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Nissia: My favourite maritime archaeology fieldwork experience
In this short video, Crystal Safadi discusses the fieldwork she undertook at Nissia, Paralimni, Cyprus:
The Nissia Shipwreck is from the Ottoman period. It is located on the southeast coast of Cyprus. The shipwreck has been known about by the local diving community ever since the 1980s.
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The Loss of the Gribshunden (1495) and Preliminary Archaeological Investigations
Guest post on Gribshunden by Rolf Fabricius Warming
Gribshunden, also known as Gripshunden, and Griffone, was a large Danish warship employed in the fleet of King John I (Danish: Kong Hans) who reigned in Denmark from 1481 to 1513. Gribshunden appears in some of the earliest Danish fleet records and is amongst the first Danish vessels to be described as a carvel.
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Virtual issue of International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (IJNA) has created a FREE virtual issue. It contains an introduction by Dr Julian Whitewright as well as eight articles that relate closely to the content of the course.
There will be links to articles at relevant points during the course, but you may wish to visit the journal now and read some of them.
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Tybrind Vig – submerged site
In this short video, Fraser explains why Tybrind Vig is his favourite submerged landscape.
Tybrind Vig was the first submerged settlement excavated in Denmark between 1977 and 1987. The settlement is located 300m from the shore and 3m below the surface. Divers excavated well-preserved artefacts from the Ertebølle Culture. A large kitchen midden was also found.
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Funded PhD: Mapping potential wreck sites with seafloor data – scientific, social and legal considerations
We are very happy to announce a fully funded PhD studentship for UK/EU students as part of the Marine and Maritime Futures Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship scheme at the University of Southampton. If you have an excellent academic track record, are looking for a stimulating and challenging transdisciplinary project in a world class research environment please read on for further details on how to apply ...
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A day on water and a day in the lab
One of the downfalls of marine geophysical surveying is, to a degree, its cost. Although it is becoming much more affordable, sometimes given the lack of archaeological funding we are obliged to find alternative ways, but equally sufficient for our needs.
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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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Life of a core sample
Core samples can be gathered from all over the world. Here, core samples are being taken from an intertidal site at Somerset.
They can be removed from the ground using a variety of techniques; either hand powered or mechanical in nature. We can take them from dry land, inter-tidal and underwater contexts.
Once removed from the site they are taken to the BOSCORF (British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility) Core store at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton.
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