The Search for North Americas Oldest Shipwreck

[Scott A McWilliam]

Manitoulin Island an Interesting Place on an Ancient Trade Route.

 

[Scott A McWilliam]

Backrolling Into Underwater Archaeology

 

[Scott A McWilliam]

Bibliography:

Ballard, Robert, D. & Morgan, Michael Hamilton, Collision With History, The search for John F. Kennedy’s PT 109.

Bass, George F., Archaeology Under Water, 1966.

Bass, George F: General Editor, A History of Seafaring, Based on underwater archaeology, 1972.

Bass, George F. Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas. 1988, History based on underwater archaeology.

Blot, Jean-Yves. Underwater Archaeology, Exploring the world beneath the sea, 1992.

Burgess, Robert F. Man: 12,000 Years Under the Sea, 1980.

Cleator, P.E. Underwater Archaeology, 1973.

Delgado. James P. Encyclopedia of Underwater Archaeology, 1997.

Delgado. James P. Lost Warships, an archaeological tour of war at sea, 2001.

Dean, Martin & Ferrari, Ben et al 1997 Archaeology Underwater, The NAS Guide to Principals and Practice.

Ford, Barbara & Switzer, David C. Underwater Dig. 1982, The excavation of a revolutionary war Privateer.

Lenihan, Daniel, Submerged, Adventures of America’s Elite Underwater Archaeology Team 2002.

Marsden, Peter Sealed by Time, the loss and recovery of the Mary Rose 2003.

Scott, Robert. Heritage Lost. 2014.

Spirek, James D. & Della A. Scott-Ireton, Submerged Cultural Resource Management, Preserving and Interpreting Our Sunken Maritime Heritage.

Muckelroy, Keith. General Editor, Archaeology Under Water. An atlas of the worlds submerged sites, 1982.

Throckmorton, Peter: General Editor, History From the Sea, 1987.

Underwater Archaeology, a nascent discipline. Unesco Paris1972.



This is not an exhaustive bibliography just the books on Scott’s shelf, it will give you an understanding of the history of underwater archaeology.

 

[shoredivr]

Manitoulin Island an Interesting Place on an Ancient Trade Route.

Lots of good information here and I like the writing style too.

 

[Scott A McWilliam]

The Search for North America’s Oldest Shipwreck, Starts in 2018.

By; Elisabeth Servello & Scott McWilliam

Thank you for the continued interest in this thread. As you might suspect there is a lot of work, writing in particular to putting a project like this together and I apologize if I have let the thread languish. The project needs web page, not something I am handy at, so I have been looking around and it looks like two grand. I am working on it, but, I would really rather spend the money diving.

We spend the holidays enjoying the company of our children, extended family and friends but were able to spend some time editing the papers discussed in this thread. We publish on academia.edu as that site allows us to maintain some degree of control over intellectual property. Other sites like Facebook, RebreatherWorld etc., take the interesting view that if you post on their site they own your work, so, all we posted there is throw away articles, one offs. The truth is that a lot of V-bulletin format sites attract the readers we would like to reach but do not lend themselves to the type of writing we do.

With the editing, the links to the articles we have written have changed. These are the links to the “Mary Poppins” versions (practically perfect?) of our essays on The Search For North America’s Oldest Shipwreck. If you have any comments or notice errors, don’t be shy, we are publishing after this draft. By design, these papers are written in sequence and are like the first chapter in a book, or part of a script for a film, in part narrative structure, and part research hypotheses.

Diving Into the Shield Archaic.

https://www.academia.edu/35480427/Diving_Into_the_Shield_Archaic

Navigating the Shield Archaic.

https://www.academia.edu/35528322/Navigating_The_Shield_Archaic_15

The Pictograph Problem at Agawa.

https://www.academia.edu/35504270/The_Pictograph_Problem_at_Agawa

Pictographs as Aids to Navigation.

https://www.academia.edu/35518280/Pictographs_as_Aids_to_Navigation

Sound Archaeology in the Shield Archaic, Terminal Woodland Period.

https://www.academia.edu/35535124/Sound_Archeology_in_the_Shield_Terminal_Woodland_Perio_5

Searching For North America’s Oldest Shipwreck, From a Low Earth Orbit.

https://www.academia.edu/35545872/Searching_For_North_Americas_Oldest_Shipwreck_From_a_Low_Earth_Orbit

Manitoulin Island, an Interesting Place on an Ancient Trade Route.

https://www.academia.edu/35542363/Manitouin_Isand_8

If you suffered through the “splat” versions perhaps you will enjoy the “almost” civilized versions. It is hard to know how much time to spend on editing in this type of format. Thank you for your interest.

 

[Scott A McWilliam]

The following hyperlink takes you two a short paper entitled, the Search, I Never said it was going to be easy. This is the first of a series of short essays on research objectives and methodology that make up chapter two of the project.
The Search I Never Said if Was going to be easy

 

[Michelle78]

Anyone see any baskets underwater?

I am starting a project that some will find amusing and others incredibly boring. Also, I am looking for help. I am starting to look and have been writing on prehistoric archaeological sites with submerged components and if you are interested in that type of thing send me a note and I will send hyperlinks.

It will take a ridiculous amount of diving in Lake Superior but I think we can begin the search for the oldest shipwreck in North America, possibly as far back a 6,500 BCE. Perhaps we will discuss this more if anyone is interested.

We would often dive at Silver Islet off the dock when I lived in Thunder Bay. Very close to the dock in two places we came across what looked like a stack of baskets that had become unbound. We used to call this type of basket an apple basket and it held about a bushel and a half. Now, decades after the fact, I realise that my apple baskets were the remains of birch bark canoes and the flat strips of wood in my basket were the cedar strips of the canoe. In one case the canoe was standing on end and compressed in making a dense pile of the strips of wood.

If you notice a similar feature while diving drop me a line. It is best not to mess with the site as it is the type of the thing that may merit excavation, you can contaminate samples spoiling radiocarbon dating if the materials are not handled right.

 

[Michelle78]

Wishing you the very best for your Project...
Cheers!!

 

[shoredivr]

The following hyperlink takes you two a short paper entitled, the Search, I Never said it was going to be easy. This is the first of a series of short essays on research objectives and methodology that make up chapter two of the project.
The Search I Never Said if Was going to be easy

Hmm "session timed out" so couldn't read it.

 

[Scott A McWilliam]

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