#maritimearchaeology — Public Fediverse posts
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Earliest known Mediterranean long-distance sea journeys continued for at least a millennium
Hunter-gatherers sailed across more than 100 kilometers of open Mediterranean Sea thousands of years before farming reached Europe, according to a new study. The findings challenge a long-held idea about the sea travel skills of Europe’s last hunter-gatherers...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/earliest-mediterranean-long-distance-sea-journeys/
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Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850 [html, pdf 31pp] #ballast #MaritimeArchaeology #AgeOfSail https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceag102/8748666
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'earlier than previously thought’ story of the week…
Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta [html, pdf 11pp] #Mesolithic #Epipalaeolithic #seafaring #MaritimeArchaeology #MediterraneanHistory https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/7/pgag234/8741796
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Sentient Seas : a global perspective on maritime cultures across time and space [pdf 29 pp] #MaritimeArchaeology #anthropology #folklore https://www.academia.edu/169937611/Sentient_Seas_Archaeologies_of_Seascapes_and_Maritime_Rituals
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Mystery of 17th-century shipwreck carrying 400 gold coins solved after decades of research
A shipwreck found off England’s south coast has finally been identified after nearly 30 years of research. Archaeologists now believe the vessel was the Dom van Keulen, a Dutch merchant ship carrying thousands of Moroccan gold coins when it sank in 1633...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/17th-century-shipwreck-carrying-400-gold-coins/
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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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@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.
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Ancient shipwreck with 300 amphorae found off Italy could reshape views of Mediterranean wine trade
A shipwreck dating to the 5th and 4th centuries BCE has drawn archaeologists’ attention off the coast of M…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanWine #Wine #MaritimeArchaeology #Mediterranean #MediterraneanArchaeology #Shipwreck #UnderwaterArchaeology
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662849/ancient-shipwreck-with-300-amphorae-found-off-italy-could-reshape-views-of-mediterranean-wine-trade/ -
Ancient shipwreck with 300 amphorae found off Italy could reshape views of Mediterranean wine trade https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662849/ancient-shipwreck-with-300-amphorae-found-off-italy-could-reshape-views-of-mediterranean-wine-trade/ #MaritimeArchaeology #Mediterranean #MediterraneanArchaeology #MediterraneanWine #Shipwreck #UnderwaterArchaeology #Wine
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The Boat Beneath the City: Unlocking the Secrets of an Australian Maritime Mystery [video 14m32s] #MaritimeArchaeology #NauticalArchaeology https://youtu.be/kFAS4sdqn-Y
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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Ancient pleasure barge found off Alexandria coast
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74860
#history #archaeology #anthropology #MaritimeHistory #maritimearchaeology #Egypt #ancienthistory
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San José galleon artifacts surface after 300 years, shedding light on the 1708 Caribbean shipwreck
For the first time since the San José galleon sank beneath the Caribbean more than three centuries ago, a set of carefully selected artifacts has been brought to the surface, giving a clearer window into one of the most fabled shipwrecks in the Americas...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/san-jose-galleon-artifacts-surface-after-300-years/
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Over 1,000 silver and gold coins recovered from the legendary 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet
A remarkable discovery has been made off the east coast of Florida, where divers have recovered more than 1,000 gold and silver coins from one of the most famous shipwrecks in the Americas—the 1715 Treasure Fleet...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/silver-and-gold-coins-from-spanish-treasure-fleet/
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Well-preserved Roman shipwreck in Croatia reveals ancient trade and seafaring insights
A team of international underwater archaeologists is unearthing fresh information regarding Roman maritime life after unearthing a well-preserved shipwreck in Barbir Bay, near the town of Sukošan on Croatia’s Adriatic coast...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/well-preserved-roman-shipwreck-in-croatia/
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AFP: Viking ships make final high-risk voyage to new Oslo home. “The first to relocate is the Oseberg, which on Wednesday slowly made its way from its current location in the old Viking Ship Museum, arriving intact a newly built addition that will house the national treasures in optimal conditions. The extremely fragile oak hull inched forward so slowly its movement was almost undetectable to […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/11/afp-viking-ships-make-final-high-risk-voyage-to-new-oslo-home/
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250-year-old shipwreck in Orkney identified as Earl of Chatham, a former Royal Navy and whaling vessel
A collaborative work carried out by archaeologists and the community of Sanday, Orkney, has finally identified a strange wreck uncovered in February 2024 as the Earl of Chatham—a former Royal Navy frigate with its former name HMS Hind...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/250-year-old-shipwreck-in-orkney-earl-of-chatham/
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Antikythera shipwreck reveals ancient shipbuilding secrets in 2025 excavation
The 2025 excavation season at the legendary Antikythera shipwreck unearthed significant new discoveries, giving a glimpse into ancient shipbuilding, trade, and life at sea in the Mediterranean. One of the most dramatic recoveries was a still-connected set of hull fragments...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/antikythera-shipwreck-reveals-shipbuilding-secrets/
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Gold coins may reveal identity of San José galleon, the ‘world’s richest shipwreck
Over 300 years after a fateful demise, new evidence is supporting the identification of a Colombian Caribbean shipwreck as the legendary San José galleon—a Spanish 18th-century warship known as the “holy grail” of shipwrecks..
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/coins-may-reveal-identity-of-san-jose-galleon/
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Centuries-old ‘pirate’ shipwrecks in Costa Rica identified as 1710 Danish slave ships
Two previously long-misidentified shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern coast have at last been conclusively determined to be 18th-century Danish slave ships, rewriting one chapter in local and Danish maritime history. For decades, the wrecks—resting in shallow water near Cahuita National Park—were thought to be pirate ships...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/pirate-shipwrecks-identified-as-danish-slave-ships/
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Oldest carvel-built ship in Nordic region discovered in Sweden
Maritime archaeologists from the Museum of Wrecks (Vrak) in Stockholm have identified a shipwreck off Sweden’s coast that may be the oldest confirmed carvel-built vessel in the Nordic region. Lying beneath Landfjärden’s waters south of Stockholm, Wreck 5 is believed to have been built in the 1480s, perhaps as early as the 1460s...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/oldest-carvel-built-ship-in-nordic-region/
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The Shipwreck of Zaghemarz, Mazandaran, Iran: Archaeology, Archaeobotany and Absolute Dating of an Eighteenth-Century Vessel of the Caspian Sea
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11457-024-09430-6
#history #ancienthistory #archaeology #MaritimeHistory #maritimearchaeology #iran
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The wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” has been rediscovered nearly 80 years after it was intentionally sunk during a post-World War II naval exercise. The ship, which served both the U.S. and Japanese navies during the war, was located 3,500 feet below the ocean’s surface...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/10/wwii-uss-stewart-rediscovered-off-california-coast/
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#archaeology #worldwar2 #WorldWarII #worldwartwo #shipwreck #maritimearchaeology #underwaterarchaeology