Destination WA - WA Shipwreck Museum YouTube video by Destination WA

Great travel series video on our friends at the WA maritime museum youtu.be/LFrGLO1tOCM?...

The first Early Pleistocene (ca 1 Ma) fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in New Zealand reveals substantial avifaunal turnover in the last million years New Zealand has a rich Late Pleistocene–Holocene vertebrate fossil record with numerous sites across the country in dune, cave and wetland deposits, collectively providing detailed knowledge on the...

Wow! An incredible discovery - the first Early Pleistocene fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in New Zealand. Includes a new species of Kākāpō! doi.org/10.1080/0311...

Décès du pionnier québécois de l’archéologie subaquatique Robert Grenier Il s’était fait connaître en dirigeant le chantier de fouilles du «San Juan», un baleinier basque du XVIe siècle.

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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman's pioneering quest to publish it The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

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Corioli Souter of the WA Museum providing our AAA/AIMA conference keynote "All archaeology is maritime archaeology". @wamuseum.bsky.social @austarchaeology.bsky.social

Careers at CDU | Charles Darwin University Discover career opportunities and find useful information about working at CDU.

Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.

Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa

Details here:
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Uncovering the ancient landscape hidden below Sydney Harbour Maritime archaeologists at Flinders University have produced a striking 3D reconstruction of Sydney Harbour as it appeared thousands of years ago, when sea levels were much […]

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Hear Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde speak at the next History Now event!

She is a global authority on maritime archaeology (Flinders University). She is a recognised authority in seafaring, shipbuilding, technology and maritime cultural heritage

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Stone artefacts on submerged land surfaces: A response to Larcombe et al. Larcombe et al. (2025) challenge the work of the Deep History of Sea Country team regarding the provenance and mobility of lithic artefacts on the sea…

Return of the wet strawman!

We rebut our critics (again) after their most recent attempt to use high level theory and inaccurate models to justify their negative assertions about our fieldwork.

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Our @flindersmap.bsky.social crew had a great time at the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA) AGM and mini-conference in Hobart this weekend!

Our recent Masters graduate Mike Smith presenting his research in Tasmania at the AIMA symposium

Shipwreck lost for nearly 170 years finally found off SA coast In 1857, the Koning Willem de Tweede sank off SA's south-east coast, and researchers are now confident they have found it.

Exciting wreck research in South Australia, a collaboration between the Australian National Maritime Museum, DEW, Silentworld and Flinders University www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

This Queensland island shipwreck once rescued Anzacs from Gallipoli More than a century after hospital ship TSS Maheno was wrecked on the shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), families of its crew have gathered for a special Anzac Day ceremony.

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🤿 AAUS in Seattle this week 👌 #ScientificDiving

Under Bass Strait's surface lies a vast land humans once called home The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania to mainland Australia.

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Black text on white background: Measure Title: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources". Vote Counts: YEAs54 NAYs44 Not Voting2

Senate roll call vote taken on Tues. removing the rule set up by BOEM to better protect underwater archaeology during oil and gas development. Object lesson in how to endanger both the future and the past at the same time. #ClimateHeritage

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From shipwrecks to science: the legacy of Jeremy Green The Ocean Lounge · Episode

Exciting new podcast interview by our former student Maddy McAllister with Dr Jeremy Green, pioneer of maritime archaeology in Australia
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Ocean Waka: ‘Most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology’ What began as a a Rēkohu (Chatham Island) father and son's routine search has led to one of Aotearoa's most significant discoveries - possibly even in Polynesian archaeology

We have so much more to learn about the maritime archaeology of Australasia - incredible find in New Zealand www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/03/03/o...

#FindsFriday visiting PhD Daniel Claggett @flindersmap.bsky.social 3D scanning #Viking boat rivets from Shetland & the Isle of Man ahead of doing further metallurgical analyses 👀 more updates soon! ⛵⚔️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EdinArch #ArchSci #archaeology #medieval #maritime #archaeometallurgy

Dutch submarine sunk in 1946 discovered off Australian coast - DutchNews.nl A shipwreck discovered at a site off the coast of Fremantle in Australia is a Dutch submarine that picked up Australian survivors of a Japanese attack during World War II, the Dutch cultural heritage ...

How cool is this! Dutch WWII submarine found off Western Australia www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/dutc...

PBS just released ‘Black Godfather of Scuba’ on YouTube, a short documentary about the extraordinary life and accomplishments of Dr. Albert José Jones.

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On International Women and Girls in Science Day we're celebrating Dr. Georgia Nester highlighting her deep-sea research. Dr. Nester uses eDNA to study and monitor biodiversity in the deep ocean. Imagine taking water samples from 4,200 meters down! 🤯 📸 Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre & InkFish

Micro-Credential Scientific Diving crew out on the sea with RV Bungaree this week

Volume 48 of the Australasian Journal for Maritime Archaeology is now available to download for current members! Log in to the AIMA website then head to the current journals page to download your copy.
Interested in submitting an article? Go to www.aima-underwater.org.au/aima-publica....

Happy holidays to all our new followers on Bluesky. Don't get too wrecked today!

'Mad dream' to rebuild 1800s sailing ship It started as a quick job to replace a rotting model boat at the entrance to the town of American River on Kangaroo Island, but it grew into a much bigger project: to build a full-size, operational re...

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2,500-year-old shipwreck and anchors discovered off coast of Sicily A shipwreck dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. was discovered earlier this year off the coast of Sicily, Italian officials said.

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I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.

PhD student Masafumi laser scanning City of Adelaide (which is a clipper ship), outside the city of Adelaide (which is a city) earlier today