Details of the conference programme and the link to register as a participant can be found at https://baltic.earth/EMS2/, The conference will take place from 13.00 to 18.00 Central European Time on 16th and 17th December.
Details of the conference programme and the link to register as a participant can be found at https://baltic.earth/EMS2/, The conference will take place from 13.00 to 18.00 Central European Time on 16th and 17th December.
A new study has appeared in Antiquity journal by James Walker, Vince Gaffney and other members of the ERC-funded Lost Frontiers Project
SPLASHCOS received an honorary mention in the award of the annual European Archaeological Heritage Prize at the recent meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
New underwater sites have recently been discovered on the continental shelf offshore of the Dampier Archipelago in NW Australia.
Two volumes have now been published on the archaeological work arising from the SPLASHCOS initiative: The Archaeology of Europe's Drowned Landscapes, published by Springer as an open access volume, and Oceans of Archaeology, published by the Jutland Archaeological Society.
SPLASHCOS members were invited to a discussion workshop at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC on June 11–12, with USA archaeologists engaged in underwater research, representatives of Native tribal organisations, and Federal agencies.
The Australian Research Council (ARC) is funding a new three-year project (2017-2020), the Deep History of Sea Country, dedicated to mapping submerged landscapes and the search for underwater archaeology off the coast of Western Australia.
These volumes have now been published: Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf, Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East (Springer International) and Submerged Landscapes of the European Continental Shelf (Wiley Blackwell)
The European Commission has recently issued a call for research proposals under the geology section of the EMODnet Program (European Marine Observation and Data network) for high-resolution mapping of submerged landscapes (multibeam and seismic survey and borings).
Two major grants involving SPLASHCOS members have recently been awarded for new research. Prof. Vince Gaffney, University of Bradford, has won €2.5 million as an ERC Advanced Grant, while Prof. Dr. Hauke Joens reports that the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, has won €1.8 million from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation.