Underwater archaeology conferences & lectures
Recurrent conferences
- NAS Conference, annually in Portsmouth, UK
- International Shipwreck Conference, annually in Plymouth, UK
- In Poseidons Reich. Annually in Germany held by DEGUWA and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität.
- Arbeitskreis Unterwasserarchäologie. Conference of professional maritime archaeologists in Germany, annually in fall.
- MAS conference, Sweden, annually usually February or March.
- AIMA conference, Australia, annually.
- Society for Historical Archaeology, USA, annual conference, partly on underwater archaeology.
- International Symposia on Boat and Ship Archaeology are triennial, and held ever since 1976.
You may find more up-to-date info on conferences and lectures in e.g. AIMA Newsletter, MUNA News, Archaeogate.
Past conferences
- Centre for Potuguese Nautical Studies 2nd Annual Maritime Archaeology Conference, South Africa, 2006
- IKUWA 2, 2004, Zürich, Switzerland
- World Archaeological Congress (WAC), 2003, Washington, DC, USA
- Thracia Pontica VIII, 2003, Bulgaria
- EAA 8th Annual Meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002
- 2nd MIT Conference on Technology, Archaeology, and the Deep Sea, Massachusetts, USA, 2002
- Maritime Archaeology in Malta 2002, Maritime Museum, Birgu, 2002
- Third International Conference of the Baltic Sea Area, Rostock, Germany, 2001
- Simposio de Arqueología Subacuática, 1er Congreso Argentino de Arqueología Histórica, Sociedad Argentina de Arqueología Histórica, 2000
- EAA 6th Annual Meeting, Lisbon, 2000
- IKUWA 99
- Third International Conference on the Technical Aspects of the Preservation of Historic Vessels, San Francisco, 1997
- Fifth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam, 1988
List servers
- SUB-ARCH, USA. Subscribe with the email subscribe sub-arch [firstname
lastname] to: listserv@lists.asu.edu
- Marine History Information Exchange Group, maintained at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Subscribe with the email subscribe marhst-l [firstname lastname] to: listserv@qucdn.queensu.ca)
- Sea Site, Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies. To join, send an email to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk, with the text join sea-site [firstname lastname]
- Find others at Anthropology Resoruces on the Internet or Archaeology on the Net
These non-moderated list servers are also called mailing groups. All messages from any member can be read by all other members. If you want to subscribe, send a message like: "subscribe (listname) (first name) (family name)", and you should receive further instructions. NB! If you reply to a posting, you send to the whole group. If you want to reply to an individual, you must enter that mail address manually.
Topics on these conferences include: How shall archaeology be financed? May artefacts be sold? Which objects should be preserved? Salvage/recovery or reburial? Join the debate!
Other electronic conferences
- Wreck Diving Forum, Divernet
- Mary Rose Divers
- Yahoo Groups has a few interesting groups. Search on e.g. "underwater archaeology".
We don't have our own Usenet newsgroup yet, but you may try sci.archaeology, alt.archaeology, rec.scuba, de.rec.sport.tauchen and fr.rec.plongee.
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