Join Jenna Hartley, North Carolina State University PhD student, as she details her PhD research project involving the power of young people as community change-agents on the topic of marine debris.

Join Stephen Atkinson, Assistant State Archaeologist, as he explores the history behind the many beached shipwrecks that dot the North Carolina coastline.

Step back to 1862 to learn how the USS Monitor was key in saving the Union.

Kimberly Kenyon, senior conservator for the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project, shares why conservation is so critical to archaeology and some of the processes involved.

Join Dr. Avery Paxton to explore how North Carolina shipwrecks form homes for a diversity of marine life.

Partnering since 1975, NOAA and the state of North Carolina work to research, honor, and protect the hallmarks of North Carolina’s underwater cultural heritage: shipwrecks.

As the Director and Curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian, and member of the Lumbee Tribe, Nancy Strickland Fields will talk about the importance of Native Community outreach and community inclusion as a means to build partnerships, relationships, trust, and authenticity in museum programs and exhibits.

Nearly a thousand years ago, Cox Mound, Bell Site, Hiwassee Island, Ledford Island, Long Island, and Bussell Island were all complex villages including combinations of mounds, plazas, palisades, ditches, and houses.

Dr Brooke Bauer is a citizen of the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina and her research concentrates specifically on the ways in which Catawba Indian women created, promoted, and preserved a Catawba identity as they adapted to the changes occurring inside and outside Catawba tribal boundaries during the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century.

Archaeologists use a range of tools to find out about the past.  Absorbed pottery residue analysis uses Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry to identify and interpret the contents of unglazed pots from archaeological sites.