Check Yourself Before You Shipwreck Yourself - Dirt 86

Anna and Amber venture beneath the waves this week to bring you an episode about shipwrecks and underwater archaeology! We visit a few of the most famous ships in Davy Jones' Locker, Amber learns that underwater archaeology means more than "just pick it up from the bottom," and Anna dusts off that pirate accent.

Links

• The popular “pirate accent” is based on Robert Newton’s performance in the movie Treasure Island (The Vintage News)

• Underwater Archaeology (NOAA)

• More Than Just Archaeology Underwater (Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology)

• Uluburun Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (Institute of Nautical Archaeology)

• Queen Anne’s Revenge Project

• Archaeology of Titanic (Archaeology)

• RMS Titanic (Archaeology)

• Surveying the Titanic (Real Archaeology)

• Antikythera Shipwreck (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

• Ancient Skeleton Discovered on Antikythera Shipwreck (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

• Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Treasures, Hints More May Be Buried at Site (Smithsonian)

• The Mary Rose: The Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII's Flagship

• Hatch, the Mary Rose dog

• Conservation of Cultural Materials from Underwater Sites (Archives and Museum Informatics)

• Conservation for Underwater Archaeology (tDAR)

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