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2023 Conference - Information Coming Soon

18th - 19th November 20232 (extra events on 17th and 20th)

#ArchConf23

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2022 Conference - Sea Change: Human and Climate Influences on our Maritime Past

19th - 20th November 2022 (extra events on 18th and 21st)

#SeaChange22 #ArchConf22 - @SeaChange2022 on Twitter

The Nautical Archaeology Society, Diving Ireland, the National Monuments Service and the CHERISH Project, supported by Techworks Marine, co-hosted a two-day conference showcasing the diversity within our maritime environment (including inland waterways and lakes) and highlight both traditional and state-of-the-art technology and methodologies employed in understanding our maritime past and how this might be impacted by future changes. 

Presentations included multidisciplinary approaches and how cross-border and community engagement enriches our understanding of coastal, archaeological and climate challenges. 

The conference was held on the 19th-20th November 2022 at the 4 star "Royal Marine Hotel" in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland.

The 2022 Conference was generously supported by: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Met Éireann, Marine Institute, Dublin Port Company, Archaeological Management Solutions, Wessex Archaeology, ADCO Professional Diving Solutions, Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust and the Department for Communities Northern Ireland.

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The full programme of presentations given over the weekend can be downloaded here.

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2021 Virtual Conference - 50 Years of Nautical Archaeology and the IJNA

20th - 21st November 2021 #ArchConf21 #50Years   A two day virtual conference held on the Pheedloop platform. 

Dave Johnston - 30 years after Owen (IJNA 1991) another Interim Report on Warship Hazardous Prize                                       

Lauren Tidbury & Grant Cox - The Punic Ship of Marsala – a virtual dive in to a fifty-year-old discovery

50 years of Nautical Archaeology 

Giulia Boetto - Past and Recent Research in Nautical Archaeology at the Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-en-Provence, France

Sam Meacham -  Data collection and Management for Underwater Cave Sites   

Robyn Pelling - Introducing Technical Divers to the Archaeological Method

Paolo Croce, Mark Harrison & Dr Rod Bale- 'Old Brig' Wreck Excavation at Seasalter, Kent– Joint presentation by Wessex Archaeology, Timescapes Kent and Historic England

Wayne Lusardi & Hunter Whitehead - Lake Huron Red Tails!

Abigail Parkes - Bows that are Long - a re-examination of the Mary Rose longbows

Marwan Mady - Did Ancient Egyptian shipbuilders use Dovetail mortise and tenon technique to fasten their ships?

Clare Hunt - Old Timbers, New Discoveries: Investigations onboard HMS Trincomalee

Sirin Ghiye - Detection coastal changes through satellite imagery 

Abigail Darville - The Need for Academic Integrity in Mass Media: A Perspective from Nautical Archaeology in The Bahamas

Alex Tyas - Community underwater archaeology: A collaborative project in Iceland

Angelos Manglis - The development and prospects of an integrated management model for promoting and protecting of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Makanani Bell - Evaluating Community Engagement in Archaeology and Heritage Management"                               

Daisy Turnbull - Actualising the Underwater Museum: Developments in the Dimensions of Maritime Heritage and New Approaches to the Safeguarding of Underwater Cultural Sites

Sergey Khoklov - Promotion of Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Site (AUCHS) on the example of an XVIIIth-century British-Russian frigate that sank in the Aegean Sea

Ivan Nikolaev - Underwater archaeological exhibitions and expositions in museums of Russia

Lara Band - Hovering on the Edge: contemporary archaeology on the east coast of Kent

Nic Flemming - 50 Years of Marine Geoscience, Sea Level Change, and Human Occupation of the Coast and Continental Shelf

Carlo Beltrame - The Routes of the Marble in Antiquity” Project

Graham Scott - First World War U-boats – investigating and managing the resource

Danielle Newman - Changing Minds, Changing Coasts

Daniel Pascoe - Emerging from the 'Ship Swallower': The latest discoveries and challenges from the warship Northumberland

Agni Mochtar - Shipwreck sites in Madura Strait, East Java, Indonesia

Pornnatcha Sankhaprasit - The Phanom-Surin shipwreck

Abhirada Komoot - Thought Becomes a Thing - a hypothetical reconstruction of a 9th century Phanom-Surin Ship in Thailand represented by a scaled model, the Lalita

Rev Dr Jay Grave - A Rose of Any Other Name: The Finding of the Votrys

50 years of the IJNA   


Alicia Johnson - Effective Management of Archaeological and Historical Shipwreck Sites in the Red Sea, Egypt

Noran Hamed  - Red Sea heritage: presenting the stories of the western coast of Egypt

Michael Curtis -The challenge of re-evaluating the maritime landscape of Hellenistic and Roman Crete

Yannis Nakas - Harbours and ships in perspective: towards a new understanding of Hellenistic and Roman harbours of the Mediterranean

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2020 Virtual Conference - NAS That's What I Call Nautical Archaeology

21st - 22nd November 2020 - #ThatsNauticalArchaeology

In 2020 in light of the unprecedented global situation, we took the opportunity to create a special event, with our best line up ever.  We used the Pheedloop Virtual Event Platform to host a weekend including 32 presentations on two virtual stages, networking opportunities, exhibitions, fun stuff for the young (including young at heart), awards, a quiz and the famous NAS raffle. 

The 2020 event was generously supported by Historic England, DiveMaster Insurance, MSDS Marine, Sub-Aqua Association, Go Dive Scuba Store, and Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust

The 2020 conference event was also made possible with the grant support provided from the National Lottery Heritage Fund Covid19 Fund. #NationalLotteryHeritageFund

You can rediscover the 2020 conference through recorded presentations on out YouTube Channel here. 

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Previous NAS Conferences

2021 Conference 50 years of Nautical Archaeology and the IJNA - held online

2020 Conference Now that's what I call Nautical Archaeology - held online

2019 Conference Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions - held in Portsmouth in partnership with the Ordnance Society 

2018 Conference Building a Future for Our Maritime Past - held in Newport, Wales with the Friends of the Newport Ship 

2017 Conference Discovery Is Just The Beginning - was held in Portsmouth 

2016 Conference was held in Glasgow in partnership with the SCAPE Trust

2015 Conference was held in Portsmouth in partnership with the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology

2014 Conference was held in London in partnership with the Thames Discovery Programme, MOLA

2013 Conference was held in Portsmouth

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Updated: 16th May, 2023

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