{"id":63120,"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-archaeological-oceanography-student-advocates-a-new-approach-to-studying-submerged-shipwrecks\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-archaeological-oceanography-student-advocates-a-new-approach-to-studying-submerged-shipwrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/uri-archaeological-oceanography-student-advocates-a-new-approach-to-studying-submerged-shipwrecks\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 archaeological oceanography student advocates a new approach to studying submerged shipwrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNebraska native on home stretch of unique doctoral degree program<\/p>\n


\n\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 May 10, 2010 — When archaeologists study the remains of underwater shipwrecks, they often disregard elements that Alicia Caporaso believes are vitally important to understanding the wreck site.<\/p>\n


\n\tOne of the first students in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s graduate program in Archaeological Oceanography, Caporaso will earn her doctorate in August and will take with her an oceanographer\u2019s perspective on examining marine archaeological sites.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cFor most of the models that archaeologists use to study shipwreck sites, time zero is the shipwreck,\u201d she explained. \u201cFew of these models deal with why the ship was there in the first place, for example, did human behavior contribute to where it was found, or what about the physical system made it sink in that particular place. For archaeologists this is somewhat revolutionary. They tend to approach the archaeological site from the point that it settles in or on the seafloor, and they begin its study in that context.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCaporaso\u2019s dissertation proposes a new paradigm of how to conduct an analysis of underwater archaeological sites. She based her dissertation on research she conducted in Thunder Bay in northwest Lake Huron, where about 200 shipwrecks occurred between 1820 and 1950 due to collisions in fog, groundings on the treacherous lakeshore, and founderings for any number of other reasons.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe spent about one month a year from 2005 to 2008 aboard a ship collecting sidescan sonar data to create a complete image of the lake floor of the bay. Along the way she discovered two previously unknown wrecks.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was very interested in the movement of materials once the ship was wrecked,\u201d said Caporaso, who has lived in Wakefield and West Warwick during her tenure at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cThere were stretches of the lake floor that had absolutely nothing, so there is something about the physical system that prohibits wreckage from staying there. And then there were other areas where there were lots and lots of wreckage.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA native of Omaha, Neb., who earned engineering and anthropology degrees from the University of Nebraska, Caporaso chose to obtain a Ph.D. in oceanography despite knowing that she would never become a traditional practicing oceanographer because she knew it would provide unique insight into the study of underwater archaeology.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAfter finishing the oceanography program at 溏心vlog免费B站, I know it would be difficult to get a true understanding of submerged archaeological sites without the oceanography background,\u201d she said. \u201cI see myself as a bridge between oceanographers and archaeologists. Now I can better understand data analyses, and I can approach a site, know what needs to be collected, and how to go about getting it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tProfessor Robert Ballard, the marine explorer who found the Titanic, launched the 溏心vlog免费B站 Archaeological Oceanography program in 2004. It is the first academic program of its kind to merge the disciplines of oceanography, ocean engineering, history, and archaeology. <\/p>\n


\n\tIf her 溏心vlog免费B站 coursework and dissertation research weren\u2019t enough to keep her busy, Caporaso has also spent the last several years teaching undergraduate anthropology classes on such topics as frontier anthropology and the anthropology of religion. She also worked for the National Park Service assessing archaeological sites at Cape Cod National Seashore, the Gateway National Recreation Area, and the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, among others.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIf I hadn\u2019t been doing all of that, I might have been able to finish my degree a year or so sooner,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n


\n\tWith just a few months to go before graduation, Caporaso is actively seeking archaeology jobs in academia or for a government agency.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a little difficult to get a job in anthropology with an oceanography degree, but because I\u2019ve been teaching anthropology here, it\u2019s not out of the question,\u201d she said. \u201cTo be successful, you have to take every opportunity that presents itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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