Guidelines for predicting decay and protection Guidelines for predicting decay by shipworms in the Baltic Sea. Guidelines for protection of submerged wooden cultural heritage. About Wreck Protect Project Book about WreckProtect, Decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks The Baltic Sea is a brackish marine environment containing a unique and well preserved collection of shipwrecks, archaeological settlements, and other coastal maritime constructions. In total 8

SASMAP guideline 01 LR(pdf) SASMAP guideline 02 LR(pdf) View the SASMAP newsletter (pdf) About the project (pdf) About SASMAP Project WP3 Measuring environmental parameters in sediment cores. Photo D. Gregory National Museum of Denmark SASMAP’s purpose is to develop new technologies and best practices in order to locate, assess and manage Europe’s underwater cultural heritage in a more effective way than is possible today. SASMAP will take holistic- and process- based approac

A new study from the ENDURE project has been published in Peer Community Journal, investigativ how DNA extraction methods influence our ability to study bacterial communites preserved in waterlogged archaeological wood. Microorganisms play an important role in the deterioration of archaeological wood underwater, but identifying the bacteria involved in these processes is not straightforward. DNA preserved in archaeological wood can be acarce, fragmented and unevenly distribut