Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds: Maritime Archaeology
Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds: Maritime Archaeology introduced the pioneers of the discipline and explained what maritime archaeology is and why it is relevant today. It also explored the technologies used to investigate these challenging environments and the new horizons that are opening to us daily.
4 weeks, 6 hours per week
Dr Fraser Sturt
Associate Professor, Centre for Maritime Archaeology
University of Southampton
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Outline how Maritime Archaeology has developed as a distinctive area within the wider discipline of Archaeology.
- Identify the different environments in which maritime archaeological work can take place.
- Recognise some of the different types of ships and boats, and their different parts and pieces, that you will encounter during the rest of the course.
- Explain what maritime archaeology is to your friends and family.
- Differentiate between direct and indirect archaeological evidence for early seafaring
- Describe the major developments in boat and ship technology
- List at least 5 case studies of shipwrecks
- Critique the use of iconography for gaining information about seafaring in the past
- Give examples of goods traded by sea
- Describe in what way the Age of Sail contributed to the construction of European Empire
- Describe the four main factors that affect sea-level and understand why these are relevant to maritime archaeology
- Locate areas of the continental shelf that have been submerged since the last Ice Age and discuss potential survey methods for these areas
- List geophysical techniques used in marine surveys
- Identify shipwrecks in survey data
- Differentiate between a variety of simple watercraft
- Describe the principal investigative techniques used by Maritime Archaeologists
- Recognise the debates surrounding ethics which emerge from working underwater
- Differentiate between preservation in situ and preservation by record (through excavation)
- Identify areas within which the field could move forward.
Syllabus
- Introduction to Maritime Archaeology
- Shipwrecks and Seafaring
- Understanding the Sea
- Doing Maritime Archaeology
Issued on 4th March 2017
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