Special thanks to Chelsea Colwell-Pasch for compiling this week’s news and to Britt Burton, Celeste Jordan, Susan Langley, Jane Mitchell, Ole Varmer, Andrew Wilkinson, and Dave Meadows’ Explorator team for sending in news items.
1) Australia meeting on the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/australia_meeting_on_the_unesco_convention_on_the_protection_of_the_underwater_cultural_heritage/back/9597/#.UiLmkxtmim5
2) Who gets a tan in Alaska?
http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/08/19/who-gets-a-tan-in-alaska/
3) Getting ship shape: Assessing shipwreck significance.
http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/08/23/getting-shipshape-assessing-shipwreck-significance/
4) Shipwrecks offer glimpse of Australia’s past.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/shipwrecks-offer-glimpse-of-australias-past-20130829-2stgz.html
5) CT scan on possible shipwreck artifact inconclusive.
http://ipr.interlochen.org/ipr-news-features/episode/cat-scan-possible-shipwreck-artifact-inconclusive/2013-08-30
6) Second call for sessions/papers: 2014 Hawaii Underwater Cultural Heritage Conference
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/apia/about-this-office/single-view/news/second_call_for_sessionspapers_2014_underwater_cultural_heritage_conference-2/#.Uh3s2htmim4
7) NOAA confirms wreck is lost 19th century U.S. Coast Survey steamer.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130827_robertwalker.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1252-130828-new-jersey-robert-j-walker-shipwreck
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Wreck-of-PreCivil-War-Steamship-Identified-Off-New-Jersey-Coast-2013-08-27/
http://www.marinelink.com/news/identifed-subsea-wreck358067.aspx
8) Researchers retrieve shipwreck’s treasures.
http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/news/article_4d8cded4-0ff6-11e3-a9bf-0019bb2963f4.html
http://beachcarolina.com/2013/08/28/treasures-from-blackbeards-queen-annes-revenge-to-visit-historic-edenton-sept-6-to-oct-19/
9) ONLY ON 3: Fishing trip may have turned into shipwreck discovery.
http://www.wwaytv3.com/2013/08/29/only-3-fishing-trip-may-have-turned-into-shipwreck-discovery
10) 18th century British shipwreck protected by National Park Service At Biscayne National Park.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2013/08/18th-century-british-shipwreck-protected-national-park-service-biscayne-national-park23826
11) Researchers track down ship that fired old torpedo made in Providence.
http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20130828-researchers-track-down-ship-that-fired-old-torpedo-made-in-providence.ece
12) Bolivia’s shell middens are 10,000 years old.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1257-130829-bolivia-amazon-forest-islands-shell-middens
13) Is this La Salle’s ship, Le Griffon?
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1253-130828-lake-michigan-la-salle-le-griffon
14) Cultural exchange at major Canadian site.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1250-130828-canada-first-nations-the-florks
15) Pre-contact village yields Yup’ik treasures.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1245-130826-alaska-village-yup-ik-precontact
16) Stone tools unearthed in Quebec.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1243-130826-canada-quebec-stone-tools
17) Work completed on historic sunken Yenikapı ships in Istanbul.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/work-completed-on-historic-sunken-yenikapi-ships-.aspx?PageID=238&NID=53181&NewsCatID=375
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2013/08/26/Archaeology-ancient-shipwrecks-found-off-Turkish-coast_9200476.html
18) Oracle center in Aegean province of Izmir to receive its delayed cargo.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=53319
19) Mystery of 17th century Donegal shipwreck.
http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/donegal-news/mystery-of-17th-century-donegal-shipwreck-1-5436483
http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/donegal-news/archeologists-still-seek-answers-1-5425727
20) Robot assists with deep-sea archaeology.
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/59266/Robot-assists-with-deep-sea-archaeology.html
21) Shipwreck relics on display in Beijing.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20130827/101995.shtml
22) Sunken ships in Google Earth.
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2013/08/sunken-ships-google-earth.html
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Wendy van Duivenvoorde, PhD
Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology
Deputy Director, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC)
Department of Archaeology | Flinders University
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