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Visit to the Southern University of Denmark

A couple of weeks ago at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde Athena Trakadas, associate professor at the Southern University of Denmark (Syddansk Universitet, SDU), invited me to give a presentation for the master students of the maritime archaeology program at SDU in Esbjerg. The idea was to introduce the current masters to what it entails to write a MA-dissertation. Continue reading →

Maritime Bus

Maritime Bus Last week the Maritime Bus came to the Avenue Campus on a University Open Day to provide an insight into maritime archaeology for prospective undergraduate students, and to give current postgraduate students training and experience in outreach activities. The Maritime Bus is the only archaeology-themed exhibition of its kind in the UK. Continue reading →

‘What is a boat? Materials and moments’ Seminar on 27th Feb.

  The next Departmental Seminar on Thursday Feb 27th, 5-6pm, will see Jesse Ransley discussing material stories and boats: What is a boat? Materials and moments. Subodh Gupta’s 2012 sculpture ‘What does the vessel contain, that the river does not’ is a kettuvallam, a ‘sewn’ boat from Kerala, filled with everyday objects, from chairs and cooking pots to a bicycle and television. Continue reading →

Viking Ship Museum Roskilde

For the next five weeks, I am located at the the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark as a visiting PhD researcher. Despite what its name suggests, this museum is not only the world-leading authority on Viking Age shipbuilding, but also Denmark’s premier research centre for ships and seafaring in Prehistoric and Medieval times. It is here that I took the next step in my PhD journey. As of today, Dr. Continue reading →

St. Mary’s River Archaeological Project – Findings from the 2013 field season, by Scott Tucker

Scott Tucker, postgraduate researcher at the University of Southampton, will give a talk on his maritime research and fieldwork. This Centre for Maritime Archaeology Research Group seminar will take place on Thursday, January 30, at 14:00 in the Centre for Maritime Archaeology lecture room (Building 65b). A live broadcast is available on this link http://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=f1807609-d14a-4347-9f54-3849fd64701d Abstract: The St. Continue reading →

Maritime London

At first sight this post might not seem particularly relevant to my research as a maritime archaeologist. Yet, I would like to  ask you to bare with me as I explore ‘maritime London’ for the first time. Even though I have been living in the UK for almost a year and a half with the specific purpose of immersing myself in maritime archaeology and history, I had never explored ‘maritime London’. Continue reading →

MA/MSc Maritime Archaeologists’ trip to Falmouth (boat recording)

Day 1: On November 15th, twenty-something intrepid archaeologists began their journey to deepest, darkest Cornwall. The trip got off to a fairly inauspicious start, with one person being left behind. Nevertheless, in true archaeological spirit, we soldiered on. Following a long yet fairly uneventful drive, we made it to Falmouth. Finding the boat store, however, proved more difficult, and we began to wonder if Julian’s set of directions were in fact our first test. Continue reading →

Sea-level and Society in Southern Peru by Dr. Fraser Sturt

The next Centre for Maritime Archaeology Research Group seminar on fieldwork presentations is by our own faculty member Fraser Sturt. The talk is entitled “Sea-level and Society in Southern Peru” and will take place Tuesday November 19, at 11:15 am, in the CMA lecture room Building 65b. The seminar will be streamed live on this link http://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default. Continue reading →