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Registration is now open for Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds, a free four week online course offered in conjunction with FutureLearn and starting on the 6th October 2014. Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds gives you a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the fascinating world
Read moreCMA masters students spent most of the long bank holiday weekend at Buckler’s Hard in the New Forest learning ancient boat and ship building skills. The backdrop of the River Beaulieu, the intermittent sunshine and occasional ice cream belie the
Read moreThe 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’
Read moreScott 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
Read moreThe Centre for Maritime Archaeology Research Group presentations will resume on January 28th at 4 pm, in the CMA lecture room. Rodrigo Pacheco Ruiz (PhD student) will present his work on Iron Age boat Building. The presentation will also
Read moreThe 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,
Read moreThe CMA Research Group is hosting a series of fieldwork presentations covering this summer’s maritime archaeology work by the CMA faculty and students. Presentations are taking place in the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Building 65b, on the following dates: Tuesday
Read moreShip 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
Read morePeople and the Sea: A Maritime Archaeological Research Agenda for England Edited by J Ransley and F Sturt, with J Dix, J Adams and L Blue Council for British Archaeology, Research Reports 171 Britain is a maritime nation. Thus understanding
Read moreIt has been a busy week in the centr,e with numerous talks by visiting speakers and more practical instruction on the MA/MSc programme. This has seen discussion of advances in AUV technology for extensive and intensive surveys, photogrammetric techniques (onland
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