James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2004

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AR5002:12

Maritime Archaeology Practicum

[Not offered in 2004]

Townsville

HECS Band 1

13 weeks lectures, tutorials, workshops, conservation exercises and guided reading in addition to a structured field trip, in situ wreck recording, mapping and excavation, recovery and processing of finds, team leadership and management.

Available to students enrolled in either the Graduate Diploma in Maritime Archaeology or the Master of Maritime Archaeology.

Staff:

Dr M Gibbs.

This subject includes underwater site recording including manual underwater recording systems and HPASS systems; position fixing including GPS and DGPS systems; remote sensing including side-scan sonar, magnetometer survey, metal detectors and CHIRP systems; underwater photography including photo-mosaics, stereo photogrammetry and video; artefact documentation, storage and analysis; artefact photography and drawing; materials science and conservation.

Learning Objectives:

provide students with extensive practical skills in conducting maritime archaeological and/or underwater archaeological fieldwork and/or laboratory research (Diploma and Masters students);

enable students to develop and implement the skills associated with successfully planning and conducting a focussed research project and leading to the writing of a minor research thesis based on sites and collections accessed in the first instance through the Practicum (Masters students);

develop extensive practical skills in conducting maritime archaeological, conservation and/or underwater archaeological fieldwork including photography, surveying, measurement and recording of underwater and maritime archaeological sites and artifacts (Diploma and Masters students);

ability to select an area of research, conduct a focussed research project and write a research minor thesis arising from that project (Masters students).

Assessment by four major 3,000 word essays (50%); conservation science workbooks (25%); fieldwork assessment (25%).