Deep Sea Archaeology

TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS: CONFERENCE 1999

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Conference Program

Friday, January 29, 1999

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Introduction and Welcome

David A.. Mindell, Conference Organizer
Dr. Charles Vest, President, M.I.T.

Session:

Paper: Robert D. Ballard (IFE), "Deep Submergence Technologies and Undersea Archaeology"

Panelists: Lt. Cmdr. Chas Richard, Andrew Bowen, James Bellingham, Anna McCann

5:30-7:30 p.m. Reception

Saturday, January 30

8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session: Marine Archaeology

Paper: Anna McCann (B.U.), "Skerki Bank: Archaeological Results and Methods."

Paper: Fred Hiebert (U. Penn.), "From Mountaintop to Ocean Bottom: Creating an Integrated
Approach to Archaeological Research – Land, Shallow Water, and Deep Water."

Commentator: Gordon Watts (East Carolina U.)

Panelists: James Wiseman, Shelley Wachsman, Larry Stager, Louis Whitcomb

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:45 Session: Ocean Science / Ocean Engineering

Paper: Walter Pitman (Columbia, Lamont-Doherty), "An Abrupt Flooding of the Black Sea Shelf."

Panelists: Glen Gawarkiewicz, Francesco Torre, Al Uchupi, Kevin McBride.

Paper: David Mindell (MIT), "Archaeological Questions and Technology Development"

Commentator: Cheryl Ward (Texas A&M, Galveston / INA)

Panelists: Marty Wilcox, James Newman, Fredrik Hiebert, Tom Vaneck, Carl-Olof Cederlund

12:45 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 4:00 Session: Ethical Issues

Paper: James Delgado, (Vancouver Maritime Museum), "Titanic Controversies: The Titanic Since its Discovery"

Paper: Jonathan Adams (University of Southampton), "Alchemy or Science? Deep Sea Archaeology
for the Millennium"

Commentator: Patty Jo Watson (Washington U.)

Panelists: Greg Stemm, Victor Mastone

4:00 – 4:15 Break

4:15-6:15 Session: Methodology and Technique

Paper: George Bass (Texas A&M, INA), "Deep-Sea Archaeology: A New Stage of Underwater
Archaeology?"

Paper: Patty Jo Watson (Washington U.), "Archaeology in Marginal Environments"

Commentator: Owen Doonan (U. Chicago)

Panelists: Alex Gantos, Hanumant Singh, Brendan Foley, David Smart

8:00- 11pm Dinner for Participants, MIT Faculty Club

Sunday, January 31

8:30 – 10:30 Session: Cultural Resource Management

Paper: John Broadwater, NOAA / Monitor National Marine Sanctuary

"Managing Cultural Resources in Deep Water"

Paper: Ismael Tatlican (Archaeological Museum, Sinop, Turkey) [title TBA]

Panelists: Sebastiano Tusa, Victor Mastone.

10:30-10:45 Break

11:00 – 12:00 Session: Legal Frameworks

Paper: James Goold, (Covington & Burling) "Shipwrecks and the Law in the Deep Sea"

Panelists: Robert Ballard, George Bass, Gordon Watts

Deep Water Archaeology Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave. Rm e51-194
Cambridge, MA 02139