Sara A Rich
Biographic Data
| ID | 4224973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara A Rich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rich |
| SIGNATURE | RICH S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhode Island School of Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9176-8514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Shifty Island, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying About Mosquitoes and Love Partial Knowledge
This article examines knowledge produced during an interdisciplinary field trip to Persin Island, a politically charged and ecologically dynamic fluvial island on the Danube. Our collective of environmental humanities and sciences scholars came to describe Persin as shifty: an environment where spatial, temporal, and categorical boundaries never fully stabilize but are continually reconfigured by ecological processes, political projects, and huma…
Reconsidering Epistemological Limits
In 2017, British shock-artist Damien Hirst released a coffee-table book with photographs from his Venice Biennale exhibition, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, featuring artifacts retrieved from a Roman-era shipwreck in the Indian Ocean. The following year, a “documentary” was released on Netflix featuring the backstory of the wreck's excavation, showing how all those coral-encrusted antiquities made their way from the seafloor to the…
Two-Eyed Seeing into shipwrecks
By enhancing methods for how archaeology can contribute to the study of multi-species shipwrecks (or shipwreck ecology), this paper reconsiders the function of non-functioning ships and boats from anti-colonial and Native American perspectives. In partnership with the Waccamaw Indian People and the Indigenize SC Education Task Force, wood samples from several submerged wreck sites in a blackwater tidal river in the Lowcountry of South Carolina (U…
Killian Quigley
What Is There to Do If You Find an Old Indian Canoe? Anti-Colonialism in Maritime Archaeology
Following Max Liboiron’s claim that pollution is colonialism, the anti-colonial maritime archaeologist’s role in the Anthropocene might be to reframe research questions, so that focus is directed toward interactions between marine and maritime, and that the colonial ‘resurrectionist’ approach that has dominated nautical archaeology ought to be reconsidered altogether. This normative statement is put to the test with a 4000-year-old waterlogged du…
Tree-ring chronologies, stable strontium isotopes and biochemical compounds
Studies on the provenance of wood for shipbuilding contribute widely to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, environmental history, cultural geography, and palaeoclimatology. The development of reference datasets to determine the date and provenance of shipwreck timbers is therefore a paramount undertaking. Here we compile and present recent advances in the development of tree-ring chronologies, stable strontium isotope ratios and chemical bi…
Selecting and Sampling Shipwreck Timbers for Dendrochronological Research
In this article, we provide practical and straightforward guidance for the selection and sampling of shipwreck timbers for dendrochronological research. We outline sampling strategies and present informative figures that illustrate how to proceed in a variety of scenarios that archaeologists regularly encounter. However, in order to fully exploit the potential of tree-ring research on these objects, we would urge archaeologists to involve dendroc…
To put a cedar ship in a bottle
Provenancing East Mediterranean cedar wood with the 87Sr/86Sr strontium isotope ratio
Provenancing East Mediterranean cedar wood with the 87Sr/86Sr strontium isotope ratio
Selecting and Sampling Shipwreck Timbers for Dendrochronological Research
In this article, we provide practical and straightforward guidance for the selection and sampling of shipwreck timbers for dendrochronological research. We outline sampling strategies and present informative figures that illustrate how to proceed in a variety of scenarios that archaeologists regularly encounter. However, in order to fully exploit the potential of tree-ring research on these objects, we would urge archaeologists to involve dendroc…
Tree-ring chronologies, stable strontium isotopes and biochemical compounds
Studies on the provenance of wood for shipbuilding contribute widely to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, environmental history, cultural geography, and palaeoclimatology. The development of reference datasets to determine the date and provenance of shipwreck timbers is therefore a paramount undertaking. Here we compile and present recent advances in the development of tree-ring chronologies, stable strontium isotope ratios and chemical bi…
To put a cedar ship in a bottle
To put a cedar ship in a bottle
Provenancing East Mediterranean cedar wood with the 87Sr/86Sr strontium isotope ratio
Selecting and Sampling Shipwreck Timbers for Dendrochronological Research
In this article, we provide practical and straightforward guidance for the selection and sampling of shipwreck timbers for dendrochronological research. We outline sampling strategies and present informative figures that illustrate how to proceed in a variety of scenarios that archaeologists regularly encounter. However, in order to fully exploit the potential of tree-ring research on these objects, we would urge archaeologists to involve dendroc…
Tree-ring chronologies, stable strontium isotopes and biochemical compounds
Studies on the provenance of wood for shipbuilding contribute widely to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, environmental history, cultural geography, and palaeoclimatology. The development of reference datasets to determine the date and provenance of shipwreck timbers is therefore a paramount undertaking. Here we compile and present recent advances in the development of tree-ring chronologies, stable strontium isotope ratios and chemical bi…
What Is There to Do If You Find an Old Indian Canoe? Anti-Colonialism in Maritime Archaeology
Following Max Liboiron’s claim that pollution is colonialism, the anti-colonial maritime archaeologist’s role in the Anthropocene might be to reframe research questions, so that focus is directed toward interactions between marine and maritime, and that the colonial ‘resurrectionist’ approach that has dominated nautical archaeology ought to be reconsidered altogether. This normative statement is put to the test with a 4000-year-old waterlogged du…
Killian Quigley
Reconsidering Epistemological Limits
In 2017, British shock-artist Damien Hirst released a coffee-table book with photographs from his Venice Biennale exhibition, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, featuring artifacts retrieved from a Roman-era shipwreck in the Indian Ocean. The following year, a “documentary” was released on Netflix featuring the backstory of the wreck's excavation, showing how all those coral-encrusted antiquities made their way from the seafloor to the…
Two-Eyed Seeing into shipwrecks
By enhancing methods for how archaeology can contribute to the study of multi-species shipwrecks (or shipwreck ecology), this paper reconsiders the function of non-functioning ships and boats from anti-colonial and Native American perspectives. In partnership with the Waccamaw Indian People and the Indigenize SC Education Task Force, wood samples from several submerged wreck sites in a blackwater tidal river in the Lowcountry of South Carolina (U…
A Shifty Island, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying About Mosquitoes and Love Partial Knowledge
This article examines knowledge produced during an interdisciplinary field trip to Persin Island, a politically charged and ecologically dynamic fluvial island on the Danube. Our collective of environmental humanities and sciences scholars came to describe Persin as shifty: an environment where spatial, temporal, and categorical boundaries never fully stabilize but are continually reconfigured by ecological processes, political projects, and huma…
Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Oceanography (3 works) · Paleontology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)