grateful wolfJun 17
Toward, Not To: Seafaring Worldviews from Viking Age and High Medieval Norway [pdf 25pp] #maritimeArchaeology #nauticalArchaeology #experimentalArchaeology https://www.jstor.org/content/pdf/oa_chapter_edited/jj.43516546.18
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Show threadClaire BarnesJun 1

@cassana One anecdote of my own on conch history: when excavating the 'Avondster', wrecked in Sri Lanka in 1659, we found 3 conch shells, & records of the same ship carrying ~100,000 to Bengal a year earlier.
https://www.maritimeasia.ws/maritimelanka/avondster/finds.html#areca

#MaritimeArchaeology #Avondster #conch

Finds from the Avondster

Finds from the Avondster shipwreck

grateful wolfMay 23
The Boat Beneath the City: Unlocking the Secrets of an Australian Maritime Mystery [video 14m32s] #MaritimeArchaeology #NauticalArchaeology https://youtu.be/kFAS4sdqn-Y
The Boat Beneath the City: Unlocking the Secrets of an Australian Maritime Mystery - Episode 1

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Anthropology.netMay 5
A 5,000-year-old timber island hidden inside a Scottish loch, and the stereophotogrammetry trick that finally mapped it above and below the waterline as a single structure. The “white ribbon” problem in shallow-water archaeology, explained. #Archaeology #Neolithic #MaritimeArchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-white-ribbon-problem-mapping
The White Ribbon Problem: Mapping a 5,000-Year-Old Scottish Island Across the Waterline

A new stereophotogrammetry workflow developed at a Neolithic crannog on the Isle of Lewis may finally close archaeology’s most stubborn data gap.

Anthropology.net
grateful wolfMar 14
Uncovering Uluburun : pre-order publication 'the Bronze Age’s greatest shipwreck' - Archaeological Institute of America #MaritimeArchaeology #MarineArchaeology #UnderwaterArchaeology https://www.archaeological.org/donate/ https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-1-1170x2048.jpg
Donate to the AIA - Archaeological Institute of America

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Joe RoeFeb 23

'Introduction to Maritime Archaeology' Summer School (BA/MA, 7.5. ECTS) at the University of Copenhagen and Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde:

https://kurser.ku.dk/course/harks2026u/2025-2026

Open to Danish or international students; register before 9 April.

#Archaeology #MaritimeArchaeology #Ships #MaritimeHistory #SummerSchool #Denmark

ARK Introduction to Maritime Archaeology - 2025/2026

Københavns Universitet er med cirka 40.000 studerende og 9.000 medarbejdere en af Nordens største forsknings- og uddannelsesinstitutioner.

readbeanicecreamFeb 6

Roman Shipwreck Discovered Off Coast of Southern Italy

https://archaeology.org/news/2026/02/05/roman-shipwreck-discovered-off-coast-of-southern-italy/

#history #archaeology #maritime #MaritimeHistory #maritimearchaeology #ancienthistory #ancientrome

News - Roman Shipwreck Discovered Off Coast of Southern Italy - Archaeology Magazine

PUGLIA, ITALY—ANSA reports that a Roman shipwreck carrying a cargo of amphoras was discovered last […]

Archaeology Magazine
Ars Technica NewsJan 16
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark https://arstechni.ca/uEYj #maritimearchaeology #nauticalarchaeology #medievalEurope #Archaeology #shipwrecks #Science #science
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.

Ars Technica
Radical AnthropologyDec 27, 2025

Good discussion here of the peopling of #Sahul by a 'long chronology', that is reaching New Guinea and Australia by 60,000 years.

Previous data showing Aus and PNG populations carry the signature of Neanderthal interbreeding (some 55-50 Kya in the Middle East) suggests the 'chronology' was more recent OR all the first wave left no descendants today. But these calibrated #mtDNA results suggest different, people do descend from the early pioneers, entering via two routes, the main one N Indonesia-Philippines, and another southerly one.

#archaeogenetics #maritimearchaeology

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-guineans-aboriginal-australians-descend-groups.html

New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New Guinea and Australia by modern humans, Homo sapiens—refining our understanding of the origins of seafaring and maritime mobility.

Phys.org
readbeanicecreamDec 9, 2025

Ancient pleasure barge found off Alexandria coast

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74860

#history #archaeology #anthropology #MaritimeHistory #maritimearchaeology #Egypt #ancienthistory