UWF Maritime Archaeology

Friday was the official end of UWF’s 2023 Underwater Archaeology Fieldschool! Congratulations to our students, Braedin, Hunter, Jenna, Nick and Rin! You guys rocked it, and you’re all welcome to continue diving and discovering with us this fall 🤿

This week, we wrapped up a wonderful second half of Maritime Field School. Thank you to our fantastic students and supervisors!

Graduate student Kyle Brown and undergrad student Rin Amos going to work to investigate magnetic anomalies as part of UWF’s Maritime Archaeology Field School!

The weather shaped up very nicely this week. The crew was able to get out on the water for five gorgeous days of mapping practice, target diving, and remote sensing survey!

Despite the rain, we were able to finish up Scientific Dive Training with students in the second half of Maritime Field School this week! Rain days were spent learning baseline offset and trilateration as well as visiting the USS Alabama, a battleship that was commissioned and launched in 1942, and the USS Drum, a gato-class submarine, both of which served in WWII.

What do you do when waiting out storms at the boat ramp? Fresh mango breakfast, of course!

Had a local welcoming us to the boat ramp today! ♥️ I have to admit she was really bad at tying off the boat on the cleat when the crew threw a line to her, but she was regal!!

And... that's a wrap for scientific dive training in UWF's 2023 Maritime Archaeology Field School!

A little stowaway on the jeep yesterday. Had to pull over and let it disembark safely… 😁

Two anomaly diving boats, and a magnetometer boat- sounds like a small fleet! Let’s see what these students find! ♥️

Nolan Swaim, Bria Brooks and Richard Loza on the mag boat today!

Casey Heffron is running our magnetometer survey today!

Only in Pensacola can you be doing maritime archaeology while watching the Blue Angels practice ♥️

UWF Maritime archaeology students getting ready for work! It’s scientific diver training time😀

Odysseus tied to ship’s mast depicted on a lekythos (perfume vessel),6th century BCE, at the National Museum of Archaeology in Athens. Second image is bronze model of Greek warship, 5th C BCE, Acropolis Museum. Awesome to see in person!

Veterans and archaeologists search for missing WWII personnel - University of West Florida Newsroom In June 1944, U.S. forces launched an amphibious assault on the island of Saipan. During that assault, 22 F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft were lost. At least three of those aircraft went down near Tanapag Harbor, Saipan. The aircraft and pilots remain unaccounted for. Efforts began last week to continue the....

Our Marine Services Center plays an integral role in the training of our UWF maritime archaeology students. Here Roberto Delosantos puts a student through the two-day boat handling course, which involves trailering, maneuvering, launching and other real-world skills. So many times I have run across people on projects who are great divers, but know nothing about small craft operation. You have to know how to get the boat in the water before you can dive!

Check out this ACUA Careers in Underwater Archaeology Event!

Sophisticatedly engineered ‘watercourts’ stored live fish, fueling Florida’s Calusa kingdom The mighty Calusa ruled South Florida for centuries, wielding military power, trading and collecting tribute along routes that sprawled hundreds of miles, creating shell islands, erecting enormous …

Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

Congratulations to Dr. Dadiego!

Danielle Dadiego named recipient of 2022 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award UC Santa Cruz alumna Danielle Dadiego (M.A. Anthropology, ’17; Ph.D. Anthropology, ’20) has worked in the archeology field for nearly two decades. Her dissertation, Beads, Bullets, and Brokerage: Exploring Economic Agency in Eighteenth-Century West Florida, has been nationally recognized by the ...

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article/2914467/once-above-now-below-archaeological-investigations-of-two-early-1950s-naval-air/

Once Above, Now Below: Archaeological Investigations of Two Early 1950s Naval Aircraft Wre For northwestern Florida, naval flight training began in 1914 with the arrival of the newly formed aviation unit consisting of nine officers, twenty-three enlisted men, and seven aircraft. Under the

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR INAUGURAL STUDENT SYMPOSIUM!

The Maritime Studies Association is hosting a hybrid conference on April 8-9, 2022 for students with research related to maritime studies! For more information and to submit an abstract head to the website: https://msastudentsymposium.wordpress.com/

MSA is comprised of students from the ECU Program in Maritime Studies within the ECU Department of History.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS FEBRUARY 28 @ 11:59 PM EST

Old school nautical charts and topo map exercises- UWF Archaeology Survey class!

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Florida study documents condition, existence of endangered coastal archaeological sites Researchers with the Florida Public Archaeology Network discuss the final report of a study of cultural heritage sites threatened by climate change.

Can the Clotilda be excavated? A dive team returned to the site of the Clotilda a month ago to once again survey the wreckage. Physical inspection coupled with sonar imagery now lead archeologist Dr. James Delgado to believe there are more artifacts intact than previously thought on the last known slave ship to come to the United...

Recently, the UWF Division of Anthropology and Archaeology entered into an agreement with the Key West Botanical Garden Society, Inc. to consult on recording and preserving Cuban “Chugs” or vernacular refugee vessels.

Maritime archaeologists and conservators, Dr. John Bratten and Meghan Mumford visited the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden and conducted an onsite inspection of the collection which includes 9 vessels and 1 modified engine from another vessel. Archaeologists worked taking preliminary measurements and detailed photographs of each vessel.

The ultimate goal of the project is to create a preservation plan for these historically and culturally significant vessels that will not alter the unique appearance of each. Stay tuned!

UWF Maritime Archaeology Seminar students finishing up their ship lines drafting exercise. Where did the semester go?!

Congrats Meghan Mumford!

The Register values the professional development and growth of our Registrants. We are delighted to announce one of the recipients of the Register Skills Acquisition Grant, Meghan Mumford!

This funding will go towards providing Meghan some valuable training opportunities on the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) with the National Preservation Institute.

"Meghan Mumford is a Faculty Research Associate, Collections Manager, and Archaeologist for the University of West Florida (UWF) Archaeology Institute. As an archaeologist, Mumford has conducted archaeological research in the southeast U.S. and Caribbean, working on a variety of terrestrial and underwater sites. As collection manager, she curates and oversees the UWF Archaeology Institute collections which include prehistoric and historic Native American materials, Spanish, French, and British colonial materials, and historic materials that date from the Early American period to the present. Her research interests include maritime archaeology, ship construction, colonial seafaring, terrestrial archaeology, colonial archaeology, the conservation of archaeological materials, and the curation of archaeological materials and associated records."

Congratulations from all of us at the Register!

The new UWF Marine Service Center (MSC) workhorse has arrived!! This tritoon will serve as a dive platform for the continued investigation of the Emanuel Point III shipwreck site! A big thank you to the MSC staff, DJ Johnson, Fritz Sharar, and Roberto "Del" Delossantos!