Research project: The Taphonomy of Historic Wreck Sites
Shipwrecks are often regarded as simply expressions of dramatic maritime events, points of failure in human endeavour. However, in this research I am investigating the rich multidimensional, reality of these sites. For archaeologists wrecks offer exceptional snapshots of the society in which they were built and operated. By virtue of the rapid nature of their demise they can provide an unparalleled collection of artefacts from a very short time window. This is a characteristic of these data sets that is often hard to replicate on terrestrial sites.