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- Title
Underwater Archaeology in Minnesota.
- Authors
Merriman, Ann; Olson, Christopher
- Abstract
The discipline of Underwater Archaeology in Minnesota began in 1960 with the Quetico-Superior Underwater Research Project, a 13-year white-water riverine investigation. Between 1989 and 1997, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) sponsored maritime historical research, site and target specific sonar surveys, and predisturbance documentation of certain known wreck sites for National Register of Historic Places nomination in Lake Superior . In 1996, the SHPO supported a project to conduct research and investigate possible wreck locations within Minnesota's other rivers and lakes. The data collected during the series of SHPO projects from 1989 to 1997 was used to produce a Submerged Cultural Resources Plan. In July 2005, Ann Merriman and Christopher Olson founded Maritime Heritage Minnesota to document, preserve, conserve and, when necessary, excavate Minnesota's finite maritime and nautical archaeological resources within a not-for-profit paradigm. Primarily with funding from Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants, Maritime Heritage Minnesota has conducted systemic down- and side-imaging sonar surveys in lakes and rivers, nautical archaeological documentations and assessments, maritime site identifications and documentations, and undertaken the digitization and transcription of historic ship's logs.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; UNDERWATER archaeology; HISTORICAL archaeology; ARCHAEOLOGICAL site location; MONITORING of historic sites; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Minnesota Archaeologist, 2013, Vol 72, p91
- ISSN
0026-5403
- Publication type
Article