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Research Seminar in Deep Sea Archaeology

STS.467 · Science, Technology, and Society · Graduate · Spring 2002

Prof. David Mindell, Dr. Claire Calcagno

MIT · Tier 1

STS.467 examines the intellectual foundations of archaeology in the deep sea. The course explores the current convergence of oceanography, archaeology, and engineering which allows scientists to discover, survey, and excavate shipwrecks in deep water with robots and submarines. The course seeks to address the following questions: How are new devices best employed for archaeological work? How do new capabilities (e.g. higher frequencies, higher resolution, all digital data output) change operati…

AnthropologyOcean EngineeringEarth ScienceEngineeringSocial SciencesScience & Math

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Prof. David Mindell, Dr. Claire Calcagno. STS.467 Research Seminar in Deep Sea Archaeology. Spring 2002. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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