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Democratising Deep-water Survey Placements, 2023

Democratising Deep-water Survey Placements, 2023 During the 2023 survey season, HFF offered several placements with the Democratising Deep-water Survey: Innovative Low-cost Multi-AUV Survey of Shipwrecks in the Strait of Sicily project. The placements offered early career researchers working on research or survey projects in the region the opportunity to train on an exciting new piece […]

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Democratising Deep-water Survey: Innovative Low-cost Multi-AUV Survey of Shipwrecks in the Strait of Sicily

Democratising Deep-water Survey: Innovative Low-cost Multi-AUV Survey of Shipwrecks in the Strait of Sicily Dr. Lisa Briggs & Dr. Peter Campbell Deep-water archaeology (depths greater than 100m) has been recognised for its potential ever since Frédéric Dumas’ Deep-water Archaeology  (1962) and Willard Bascom’s Deep Water, Ancient Ships  (1976). The few projects undertaking offshore, deep-water research

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Developing an Open Source Methodology for the Remote Monitoring of Marine Protected Areas

Developing an Open Source Methodology for the Remote Monitoring of Marine Protected Areas The Battle of the Egadi Islands (10th March 241 BC) is the only known ancient naval battlefield. Fought 3 nautical miles west of Sicily, the battle was the final naval engagement of the First Punic War. Today, the site is internationally significant

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Archeo-Paleomagnetic Dating

Archeo-Paleomagnetic Dating of Transport Amphoras from Submerged Contexts – ongoing Dr. Peter Campbell, Dr. George Koutsouflakis, and Dr. Chuang Xuan Over two seasons, the Fourni Underwater Survey has located 45 shipwrecks. While many more shipwrecks are expected to be found over the final two years of the survey, these shipwreck already represent a substantial dataset

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Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project

Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project – 2015 Dr Justin Leidwanger The Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project is a multi-stage collaborative excavation, survey, and heritage management initiative focusing on the maritime landscape and seaborne communication off the southeast coast of Sicily, Italy. The concentration of accessible sites and their location at the intersection of the eastern and western

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Reconstruction and Quantitative Analysis of the Egadi Islands Warship Rams

Reconstruction and Quantitative Analysis of the Egadi Islands Warship Rams – 2013-2015 Jon Henderson Two grants were awarded by the Foundation for the analysis of the Egadi Islands Warship Rams. More information about the Battle of the Egadi Islands Project can be found here. Analysis of the Battle of the Egadi Islands artifacts is revealing

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The Construction and Preservation of the Egadi Island Warships – ongoing

The Construction and Preservation of the Egadi Island Warships – ongoing Dr Peter Campbell From 2005-2018, the Egadi Islands Survey Project has mapped the only ancient naval battle that has been discovered. Over the past 13 years, 19 warship rams have been discovered and 11 have been raised. The seafloor of western Sicily is not conducive

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3D Documentation of the Marsala Punic Ship: Digital Conservation and Archiving – 2020

3D Documentation of the Marsala Punic Ship: Digital Conservation and Archiving – 2020 Mateusz Polakowski and Pat Tanner Introduction  The Marsala ship is one of the few examples of Punic ships surviving in the archaeological record and serves as the best example of Punic ship construction. The Punic ship, dated using pottery found on the

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