Honoured to feature in Volume 7 Heritage edition of #SeaVoice latest release from #SeaVoice, the ocean storytelling platform supported by the Cultural Heritage Framework Programme: 🌀 Heritage 🔗 Read the full volume here: www.seavoice.online/heritage

Occasionally, we are lucky enough to find drawings of #fishweirs that appear in historical drawings and plans of other structures. One of the best examples from Ireland is the fish weirs at #Duncannon Fort, Co. #Wexford, on the #RiverBarrow estuary. 1/3 #coastalhistory

#ikuwa8 We are coming to IKUWA 8 the 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology, Oostende (Belgium) from October 13th/17th, 2025! www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en/th... Session F2. Tales of the Tide: the archaeology and cultural heritage of fish weir traditions. #coastalhistory #maritimememory

The fishing people of #TimorLeste use a mix of handlines, gill nets, longlines, spear guns, organic plaited fish traps and stone enclosures that use tidal action. Images of Stone Tidal Weirs in Timor-Leste / 東ティモールの石干見（ドローン画像. Two types of stone tidal weirs 1/2 #coastalhistory

Examples of Yámana (Yahgan) fish spears, the Yámana #indigenouspeople of the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. Fish and seal spears from Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina. Made from a beech wood shaft, whale bone, and seal hide cords, dating to ca. 1920. #coastalhistory

#stone #fishweirs, #Burnie. #Tasmania has been inhabited by #indigenous #aboriginalpeople over 42,000 years. They brought the #fishweir methods with them from mainland #Australia. Several 100 sites have been identified along is coastline dating from prehistory onwards. 1/6 #coastalhistory

Focusing on terminology, theory, and infrastructure, the new second volume of CITIZEN SCIENCE IN MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY—edited by Jennifer E. Jones, Della A. Scott-Ireton, and Jason T. Raupp—explores evolving definitions and applications of citizen science in maritime heritage research.

Interested in maritime trade in the past? #WorldMaritimeDay ⛵ Check out our Underwater #Archaeology collection for the latest research on past seafaring and coastal societies around the world 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

3 primary kinds of #fishtraps/ #fishweirs that are used for fishing crustaceans , fish & marine mammals. Found worldwide and has been used by coastal communities for 1000s of years. There are simple constructions belies the depth of understanding of the aquatic environment. #coastalhistory

Happy #WorldMaritimeDay! 📷 Today we celebrate our place in this world that is defined by our blue planet the planet of predominantly waterUnderwater landscape for tide and fish patterns of life. Stone and wood #fishweirs from Strangford Lough Norther Ireland/UK.

Early images of #tuna fishing from the #Mediterranean Sea, in the form of #Paleolithic #cave art and later on pottery and paper. Rarely has a species of fish featured so prominently in the iconography of people. 1/4 #coastalhistory

To celebrate #SaudiNationalDay #SaudiArabia #KSA. Today we are looking at the same of traditional fishing methods used in #SaudiArabia stake nets (hadrah) and fish traps baskets (locally known as 'gargoor'), gillnets, handlines, trolling and small shrimp trawl nets. 1/2

More arcaheological limpets for #MolluscMonday 💙 In late prehistory HawaÏ (late 1500s/ early 1600s), shrines were built next to houses, and filled delicate food as offerings, including some neat limpet stacks, some still in their original position of deposition. Source : tinyurl.com/dbjurdw9

#Madagascar pangalanes canal build between 16th/19th century linking the coast & #tropicalforest with the major urban centres. 645 kilometres (400 mi) of lakes and canals are used for #fishing, #fishweir, transporting items such as #wood, #charcoal, dried fish and forest produce. 1/3 #costalhistory

𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟱𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝘁𝘀 (1976-2026) Butuan boats, are a collection of ancient wooden vessels discovered in Philippines, historically significant for being the first boats excavated in Southeast Asia. www.facebook.com/reel/1361540...

Night time at the #ArchofGalerius ( #Αψίδα του Γαλερίου) or #Kamara (#Καμάρα) and the #Rotunda (#Ροτόντα) are neighbouring early 4th-century AD monuments in the great port city of #Thessaloniki, in the region of #CentralMacedonia in #Greece.

Today, representatives of our group had the honour of attending the Council for Asian Underwater Cultural Heritage ( #CAUCH ) Soft Launch. Prof. Akifumi Iwabuchi, Japan & Dr Paul Montgomery, Ireland) For more info www.linkedin.com/company/coun...

#Malta submits #UNESCO application to add #fortifications to #WorldHeritageList #coastalhistory #MaritimeCulturalHeritage share.google/070204fMoPxb...

Picture of Malta's #sleepinglady. Clay statue was found the hypogeum of #ĦalSaflieni, #Malta a neolithic necropolis. Some 4500 years old and seen as the representation of a goddess and sacred female divine. Today kept in the National Museum of Archaeology Malta.

Images of #fishweirs, intertidal fish traps #AbuDaluf, #Qatar (known in Arabic as al maskar). Made from unworked stone found on the beach area. laid out in walls or enclosures in the intertidal zone that form traps for fish as the tide drops. #coastalhistory

Example of fish weirs from Siberia and Finland being fished on frozen winters. The older images of #Mansi #fishweir 1903 in a stream, #Janytshkova, #Siberia. Mansi are a Ugric #indigenouspeople living in Khanty–Mansia Tyumen Oblast #Russia. 1/3 #coastalhistory

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

Art of #huntergatherers of the #Palaeolithic. Sadly, it is not as common as other prehistoric art forms. We have a range of examples of prehistoric fish art that provide insight into the perception and understanding of the aquatic world by these early indigenous hunters. 1/6 #coastalhistory

Something a little different this week! #UnderwaterCulturalheritage from the islands of #Malta! The #Gozo #Phoenician shipwreck is a seventh-century-BC shipwreck. Located at a depth of 110 metres outside #Xlendibay, Gozo, consists of a mixed cargo datable to the 7th century BC.

#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#Indigenouspeaple #aboriginal #Australia fishing techniques.Preparing a fish net made from bark twine with two metre high poles at low tide, Gulf of Carpentaria, north Queensland, c. 1910. Photograph by Francis Birtles. (AIATSIS Collection)

Images from the work at the thermal baths in the #submergedcity of #Baiae, within the #bayofnaples’ Portus Iulius. Some scholars argued that the baths might belong to the villa of Marcus Tullius Cicero. archaeologymag.com/2025/08/subm... #UnderwaterArchaeology

Lift nets as a technology have been documented in a range of countries including #Asia, #SouthEastAsia, #India #Pacific, #Africa, and #Europe. It is a simple technology that utilises weights and leverage to raise and lower a net into and out of the water. 1/5 #coastalhistory

11 September The Fiesta del Charco or de la Embarbascá is a festive tradition, with centuries of history, which takes place in the municipality of La Aldea de San Nicolás on the island of Gran Canaria Spain. 1/2 #coastalhistory

The depiction of #fishweirs in art from every period reflects their role in the physical and cultural landscape, as well as their economic value in the real world. They serve as both a tangible and abstract representation of human interaction with the ocean. #coastalhistory #fishing 1/4

Picture of a #fishtrap called Gordon Trap in #Sooke, #VancouverIsland, #BritishColumbia, #Canada. Dating to the period 1904 and 1958, the trap was part areas #salmon fisheries. Over half a mile lomg with 100 wooden piles driven into the seabed. #coastalhistory #fishing

Drawing of Fishermen using handheld bamboo fish-traps in the Philippines around 1858. The drawing was made by Carl Johann Karuth. Karuth, a German artist who visited the Philippines in the 1850s and eventually married a local Filipina woman. (Drawing by Karuth,1858 via Filipinas Heritage Library.)

A deeper challenge: First nations underwater cultural heritage in #Australia. The possibility of underwater archaeology from Australia's deep past. share.google/kCcIOzt1k28H... #IndigenousPeoples #underwaterculturalheritage #heritagelaws #fishtraps

Local communities in the north of #KwaZulu-Natal #southafrica are up in arms about unregulated fishing around #KosiBay #fishtraps. share.google/UFELoX0h2qac...

Image of stone #fishweirs on the coast #Chipiona is a town and municipality located on the #Atlanticcoast in the province of #Cádiz, #Spain. Build on the intertidal zone in front of the village. 1/4 #maritimearchaeolgy #coastalhistory

Some images from the coast and seabed in front of the ancient settlement of #Baria is a #Phoenician-#Roman settlement at #Villaricos, in the municipality of #CuevasdeAlmanzora in #Almeria, #Andalucia, Spain. 1/4

Flipping the script on the #Neolithic £Denmark 🇩🇰. Ancient #FishTraps in Denmark Challenge the Neolithic Revolution Narrative and Rewrite Stone Age History arkeonews.net/ancient-fish... #coastalhistory

This Byzantine shipwreck transformed underwater archaeology www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... /cc @twiscience.bsky.social @drkiki.bsky.social

#Sicilian Seas Yield Rare #Roman Helmet from 241 BC #Naval Clash arkeonews.net/sicilian-sea... #sicily #italy #Romanmilitary #FirstPunicWar arkeonews.net/sicilian-sea...

Native American #Yupik community #IndigenousPeoples of Kwethluk, Alaska. Made a wide range of #fishweirs as part of their traditional way of life. The homeland of Yup'ik is part of the subarctic tundra ecosystem, which is mainly flat tundra and wetlands. 1/8 #coastalhistory #arctic #NARI_Arctic

Seascape: the state of our oceans Draining the sea: fishing in crisis in south-east Asia – in pictures Draining the sea: fishing in crisis in south-east Asia – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian share.google/JdlLcbhIa3VD... #coastalhistory

#eel fishing with #nets #baskets& stone/wood #fishweirs, one of #Irelands oldest example from the eels fishing tools from Toome Bann River,NI dating to 5725 BC. One of Ireland earliest Mount Sandel Mesolithic site some 9,000 years old with seasonal runs of #salmon and #eels. 1/6 #coastalhistory

Something fishy? Nay the ketchup of ancient Rome! Images of Garum Factory, #BaeloClaudia, #Spain. Baelo Claudia is one of #Andalucía’s most important Roman sites. Located on the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar, opposite the coast of Tangiers/ Morocco. 1/6 #coastalhistory #maritimearchaeology

The value of comparing modern and historical ethnographic examples of fishing from #indigenouscommunitiessuch #France, #SierraLeone& #Namibia. And what can they tell us about past human/environment interaction? 1/6 #coastalhistory #oceanspast #OceanHeritage #TraditionalKnowledge

📣Call for Papers 📣 Share your insights and research at 6th APCONF in Bali. Submit your work and be part of the dialogue shaping the future of Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage. 🗓️ Deadline 20 September 2025. see website ! apconf-much.org?page_id=501#...

Drawing of fishing tools, spears, and boats from an expedition to the #Amurriver in #Sibera #Russia Published in 1855. The Amur is 2,865 km long borders #Russia &# China, emptying in #SeaofOkhotsk. It is home to many indigenous people who fish and hunt along its banks. 1/4 #coastalhistory

Pictures of the wooden fish weirs at Ash Point Maine USA. Dating to the 19th/20th centuries for salmon Salmo salar and herring Clupea harengus and sardine Sardina pilchardus fishing along the coast of Bay of Fundy including Maine USA, New Brunswick & Nova Scotia Canada.1/4 #coastalhistory

Collection of images from past field work in the coast of #Timor-Leste by our project leader Prof. Akifumi Iwabuchi of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. Investigating several different stone #fishweirs used by the local peoples of the coast. 1/2 #coastalhistory

Fish traps, aka #gargours used on the coastline of #SaudiArabia. Traditionally made some palm fibres but chicken wire is now common. Artisanal fisheries handline and gillnets in the #RedSea, while the industrial fleet utilizes fish and shrimp trawl nets and purse seine nets. 1/5 #coastalhistory

Fish carving at the Buġibba Temple is a megalithic temple on the border of Buġibba and Qawra towns, limits of St. Paul's Bay, Malta. The fish carvings serve to emphasise the links that the temple may have had with the sea, and that fishing and fish played a role in the food culture and traditions.