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SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA DeepArch
- Beginnings Greetings, This is the germ of an e-mail list for the Black Sea surveys in the summer of '98. I hope to use it as a general means of communication, perhaps also as a forum for relevant discussion. It should grow beyond its current small size, so please send me names of people who should be involved. I'd like to begin a "Working group on deep-water archaeology," to begin familiarizing ourselves with some of the intellectual issues here, everything from ancient Sinop to technology development. Such a group will meet regularly in a seminar format at MIT, perhaps one afternoon per month, and we can use it as a forum to present our own work and begin learning about what each other is doing. A number of topics for such sessions already suggest themselves: -Results of Skerki Bank '97 -Results of Black Sea Land Surveys, '96, '97 -Methodology in deep-sea archaeology -Academic background to Black Sea trade (i.e. Why is it important?) -Oceanography of the Black Sea -Introduction to sonar survey technologies Obviously, there can be many more. My approach would be to plan a few at first and leave a few more open, so we can invite people for things which emerge as important. More ideas are welcome. Happy New Year! dm
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