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Australia’s Leading Maritime Archaeology Program @Flinders Uni. Past Chair @UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology. Earn a Grad Diploma or MA! ⚓️
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 21d
Return of the wet strawman!

We rebut our critics (again) after their most recent attempt to use high level theory and inaccurate models to justify their negative assertions about our fieldwork.

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Stone artefacts on submerged land surfaces: A response to Larcombe et al.
Larcombe et al. (2025) challenge the work of the Deep History of Sea Country team regarding the provenance and mobility of lithic artefacts on the sea…
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Oct 6
Our @flindersmap.bsky.social crew had a great time at the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA) AGM and mini-conference in Hobart this weekend!
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Oct 4
Our recent Masters graduate Mike Smith presenting his research in Tasmania at the AIMA symposium
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · May 7
Exciting wreck research in South Australia, a collaboration between the Australian National Maritime Museum, DEW, Silentworld and Flinders University www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Shipwreck lost for nearly 170 years finally found off SA coast
In 1857, the Koning Willem de Tweede sank off SA's south-east coast, and researchers are now confident they have found it.
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Apr 26
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This Queensland island shipwreck once rescued Anzacs from Gallipoli
More than a century after hospital ship TSS Maheno was wrecked on the shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), families of its crew have gathered for a special Anzac Day ceremony.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · Mar 27
🤿 AAUS in Seattle this week 👌 #ScientificDiving
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · Mar 5
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Under Bass Strait's surface lies a vast land humans once called home
The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania to mainland Australia.
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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Feb 28
Senate roll call vote taken on Tues. removing the rule set up by BOEM to better protect underwater archaeology during oil and gas development. Object lesson in how to endanger both the future and the past at the same time. #ClimateHeritage

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Black text on white background: Measure Title: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources". Vote Counts: YEAs54 NAYs44 Not Voting2
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Mar 4
Exciting new podcast interview by our former student Maddy McAllister with Dr Jeremy Green, pioneer of maritime archaeology in Australia
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From shipwrecks to science: the legacy of Jeremy Green
The Ocean Lounge · Episode
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Mar 3
We have so much more to learn about the maritime archaeology of Australasia - incredible find in New Zealand www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/03/03/o...
Ocean Waka: ‘Most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology’
What began as a a Rēkohu (Chatham Island) father and son's routine search has led to one of Aotearoa's most significant discoveries - possibly even in Polynesian archaeology
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · Feb 21
#FindsFriday visiting PhD Daniel Claggett @flindersmap.bsky.social 3D scanning #Viking boat rivets from Shetland & the Isle of Man ahead of doing further metallurgical analyses 👀 more updates soon! ⛵⚔️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EdinArch #ArchSci #archaeology #medieval #maritime #archaeometallurgy
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Feb 21
How cool is this! Dutch WWII submarine found off Western Australia www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/dutc...
Dutch submarine sunk in 1946 discovered off Australian coast - DutchNews.nl
A shipwreck discovered at a site off the coast of Fremantle in Australia is a Dutch submarine that picked up Australian survivors of a Japanese attack during World War II, the Dutch cultural heritage ...
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Feb 15
PBS just released ‘Black Godfather of Scuba’ on YouTube, a short documentary about the extraordinary life and accomplishments of Dr. Albert José Jones.

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Australian National Maritime Museum @seamuseum.bsky.social · Feb 11
On International Women and Girls in Science Day we're celebrating Dr. Georgia Nester highlighting her deep-sea research. Dr. Nester uses eDNA to study and monitor biodiversity in the deep ocean. Imagine taking water samples from 4,200 meters down! 🤯 📸 Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre & InkFish
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Feb 11
Micro-Credential Scientific Diving crew out on the sea with RV Bungaree this week
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Jan 31
Volume 48 of the Australasian Journal for Maritime Archaeology is now available to download for current members! Log in to the AIMA website then head to the current journals page to download your copy.
Interested in submitting an article? Go to www.aima-underwater.org.au/aima-publica....
AJMA | Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology
www.aima-underwater.org.au
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Dec 25
Happy holidays to all our new followers on Bluesky. Don't get too wrecked today!
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Dec 25
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
'Mad dream' to rebuild 1800s sailing ship
It started as a quick job to replace a rotting model boat at the entrance to the town of American River on Kangaroo Island, but it grew into a much bigger project: to build a full-size, operational re...
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Dec 19
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Dec 13
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2,500-year-old shipwreck and anchors discovered off coast of Sicily
A shipwreck dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. was discovered earlier this year off the coast of Sicily, Italian officials said.
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Dec 10
I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · Dec 10
PhD student Masafumi laser scanning City of Adelaide (which is a clipper ship), outside the city of Adelaide (which is a city) earlier today
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Marc-André Bernier @mabernier-uwarch.bsky.social · Dec 9
Book of the Day #13
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One of the most influential books in the discipline, Keith Muckelroy’s Maritime archaeology published in 1978. A must-read for all aspiring underwater & maritime archaeologists. Muckelroy pushed the study of site formation processes for submerged sites to another level.
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Professor Amy Roberts @profamyroberts.bsky.social · Dec 9
Our latest research with the Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation and the Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation is now available
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Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · Dec 7
An amazing 244 respondents already to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

BUT only 12 from South Australia and 4 from the ACT!
Where are you?????

Please complete the survey at:

www.surveymonkey.com/r/profiling2...

#AustralianArchaeology
If based in Australia, what state or territory are you based in?
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