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Jérôme OLLIER

Explorer's 'pirate wreck' claim false, says UNESCO - @AFP via @YahooNews - 0 views

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    UNESCO on Tuesday threw cold water over an American explorer's claims that he had discovered the sunken treasure of infamous 17th-century pirate William Kidd off the coast of Madagascar.
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    UNESCO on Tuesday threw cold water over an American explorer's claims that he had discovered the sunken treasure of infamous 17th-century pirate William Kidd off the coast of Madagascar.
Jérôme OLLIER

Underwater Archaeology Wing Begins Explorations In Dwarka - Government of India Press I... - 0 views

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    Archaeological Survey of India Initiates Underwater Explorations in Dwarka Waters With three women archaeologists, it is an inclusive show of women strength in the field
Jérôme OLLIER

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Had Deadly Predecessors - @LiveScience - 0 views

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    Indian Ocean tsunamis destroyed one of the world's most important silk-route ports in the 15th century, new research finds.
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    Indian Ocean tsunamis destroyed one of the world's most important silk-route ports in the 15th century, new research finds.
Jérôme OLLIER

Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf - LiveScience - 0 views

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    Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf.
Jérôme OLLIER

Via @PierreAGERON - India must engage maritime nations - @TheDeccanHerald - 0 views

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    India must engage maritime nations.
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    India must engage maritime nations.
Jérôme OLLIER

New evidence of megafaunal bone damage indicates late colonization of Madagascar - @PLO... - 0 views

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    The estimated period in which human colonization of Madagascar began has expanded recently to 5000-1000 y B.P., six times its range in 1990, prompting revised thinking about early migration sources, routes, maritime capability and environmental changes. Cited evidence of colonization age includes anthropogenic palaeoecological data 2500-2000 y B.P., megafaunal butchery marks 4200-1900 y B.P. and OSL dating to 4400 y B.P. of the Lakaton'i Anja occupation site. Using large samples of newly-excavated bone from sites in which megafaunal butchery was earlier dated >2000 y B.P. we find no butchery marks until ~1200 y B.P., with associated sedimentary and palynological data of initial human impact about the same time. Close analysis of the Lakaton'i Anja chronology suggests the site dates <1500 y B.P. Diverse evidence from bone damage, palaeoecology, genomic and linguistic history, archaeology, introduced biota and seafaring capability indicate initial human colonization of Madagascar 1350-1100 y B.P.
Jérôme OLLIER

Scientists Look Into The Past To Help Identify Fish Threatened with Local Extinction -... - 0 views

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    Marine scientists from the University of Queensland, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups have developed a methodology to assess fish stocks that combines new data with archeological and historical records - some dating back to the 8th Century AD. In a study conducted in along the coast of Kenya, the researchers reconstructed species' occurrences by combining modern underwater transect surveys and catch assessments with historical records that included observations from 18th century naturalists and data from archaeological sites including ancient middens dating back more than a thousand years.
Jérôme OLLIER

Batavia's mysteries unfold with discovery of mass grave - @uwanews - 0 views

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    An international team of archaeologists, including scientists from The University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum, has discovered a new communal grave in the Abrolhos Islands, the result of deaths after a shipwreck of the Dutch East India company ship Batavia.
Jérôme OLLIER

Researchers confirm timeline of human presence on Madagascar - @penn_state - 0 views

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    Systematic review of archaeological radiocarbon dates resulted in the most comprehensive database of radiocarbon dates for the island.
Jérôme OLLIER

Researchers find more evidence of 14th-century tsunami that wiped out Sumatran villages... - 0 views

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    Researchers find more evidence of 14th-century tsunami that wiped out Sumatran villages.
Jérôme OLLIER

'Out of sight, out of mind' - towards a greater acknowledgment of submerged prehistoric... - 0 views

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    There is growing awareness of the need for greater acknowledgement of underwater prehistoric cultural resources as part of management and regulation of the seabed around many maritime countries, especially those with large indigenous populations and history such as Australia. Prehistoric cultural places and landscapes inundated by Post-glacial sea-level rise on Australia's continental shelf remain largely out-of-sight and out-of-mind, hence awareness and hence legal protection of this resource is lacking. There is a clear need for greater integration of archaeology and cultural heritage management within the marine sciences as well as a greater awareness of this resource as part of a common heritage more generally. This paper explores some of the dichotomies between Western and Indigenous cultures in valuing and managing the seabed. We argue that in developing science-policy, an attempt at least needs to be made to bridge both the gap between the nature and culture perspectives, and the jurisdictional divide between land and sea. Part of the answer lies in a convergence of Indigenous knowledge with Western science approaches, focused around our understanding of physical processes impacting past and present coastal landscapes and on the seabed itself. We explore several case studies from northern and Western Australia that are trying to do this, and which are helping to provide a greater appreciation of the inundated landscapes of the inner shelf as part of a common heritage.
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