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Society ActivitiesAnnual MeetingAnnual Meeting 2010Welcome to Corpus Christi for the
Saturday Night Banquet
Biographical - Ships of Discovery, a “full-service” archaeological research and educational institution headed by Drs. Toni Carrell and Donald Keith, came to live at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History in 1992. Toni and Donald will share anecdotes of their most rewarding—and disastrous—projects in a fast-moving, heavily-illustrated presentation that will take the audience from their excavation of the oldest shipwreck ever found in the Americas to the jungles of Panama, and from designing innovative methods of bronze cannon conservation to stabilizing a 1,000 year-old Indian paddle—with sugar! Thematic - Ships of Discovery is truly an institution that epitomizes “archaeology without borders.” Borders are not limited to geography. In archaeology, there are stringent “borders” between such specialties as archival research, remote sensing, field archaeology, conservation, exhibit design and fabrication, artifact analysis, and even publication. Ships of Discovery has worked in a dozen Caribbean and Central American countries on both terrestrial and underwater sites spanning at least 1,250 years. They have conducted field surveys and excavations in Mexico, the Bahamas, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, archival research in Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Japan and France, and artifact conservation in Panama, Grand Cayman, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. For more information visit www.shipsofdiscovery.org. In a somewhat unconventional presentation they will share with the audience a number of surprising revelations about archaeology, history, and science in general that are not the sorts of things you can get out of textbooks or by watching the History Channel. They will draw from personal experience to explain how we found out:
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