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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sacred and Cultural Maritime Sites of Fiji-An Inventory in the Making]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Fiji Museum Archaeology Department, since 2015, has begun inventorying the different underwater and maritime sites in Fiji. Ratification of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and review of the legislation on the Preservation of Objects of Archaeological and Palaeontological Interest Act (Chapter 264) has had little fruition due to limitations in manpower and resources. The Fiji Museum has however taken first steps towards realizing the amendment of the legislation by developing and drafting an overarching policy for the institution. The Fiji Museum continues to deliberate on the draft policy encompassing all aspects of its services, which includes underwater and maritime cultural heritage sites, to ensure that Fijiâ€™s cultural heritage is protected. This paper will elaborate on the different types of underwater/maritime cultural heritage sites in Fiji and the inventory process of documenting and creating a database, including challenges and opportunities. It will highlight the importance of the database in assisting the Fiji Museum in its work to raise awareness and provide advice to Government and relevant authorities in the respect, preservation and protection of these submerged historical treasures. The paper will also highlight the various agencies with common goals to protect underwater cultural sites and discuss the importance of interagency collaboration. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Elia Nakoro ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Museum of Underwater Archaeology]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/24/2017]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Elia Nakoro ]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lataâ€™s Wayfinding System and Climate Science ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The cultural vision and history of Taumako extends far beyond their Duff Islands, the SE Solomons region, or the western Pacific. According to the people of Taumako, their ancestor Lata, was the first person to build and sail a voyaging canoe. Taumakans today are unique among Polynesian and Austronesian people in that they still build and navigate voyaging canoes using only the ancient designs, materials, and methods of Lata.   Lata/Laka/Laâ€™a/Rata/Raka, etc, is a Culture Hero across Polynesia, and at least some islands where the ancient Austronesian migrants settled thousands of years ago.  Lataâ€™s successes and mistakes help Taumakans, and us, learn who we are, and what to do and not do as we face global climate change and cultural wars. Taumako is full of sites where episodes of the Story of Lata happenedâ€¦the islet where Lata was born, the rock Lataâ€™s father killed the father eel, the place where Lata stood with Hina to see if the tree he cut down was actually on Hinaâ€™s land, the stones where Lata moored his voyaging canoe, where he sailed out and Hina blocked the entrance so he could not come back, where Lata picked his crew from out of the ocean, etc. Taumako was a crossroads of early Papuan settlers and Lapita pottery-making, migrants, and canoe technology that combines both Polynesian and Micronesian design features. The Story of Lata is lived today in the practice of the ancient Pacific voyaging arts.  How can all this help them break out from colonialist borders and policies, make a living at the bottom level of the global economy, and/or survive climate change?  What can we learn from Lata?]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[M. George]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Museum of Underwater Archaeology]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/24/2017]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[M. George]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From safe haven to island abandonment - impacts of the growth of Pacific shipping on the Pitcairn Island community during the 19th century ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The story of the Bounty mutiny is one of the great sagas of Pacific history and has inspired a rich literature for more than two centuries. By contrast, our knowledge of the community founded by Fletcher Christian at Pitcairn Island has remained enigmatic and obscured by evangelical and Eurocentric interpretations of the survival and development of the settlement. Founded by a small, culturally-divided group of settlers on one of the most remote islands in the Pacific and completely cut off from the world for the first 18 years of its existence - the establishment of the settlement may be seen as a remarkable success. Fifty years after the arrival of the Bounty settler-group, the island had become a regular port-of-call in the expanding network of Pacific shipping and the Pitcairn community, now approaching 200 people, had established important relationships with the Royal Navy, the American whaling fleet and Pacific communities in Tahiti, Valparaiso and Sydney.   Just a few years later however, the resources of the island could no longer cope with the increasing demands and the entire population of Pitcairn was removed to Norfolk Island. Based on historical research and archaeological fieldwork conducted on Pitcairn, this paper examines the process of colonisation at Pitcairn to reveal the changing nature of an island environment in a period of rapid change in the Pacific. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Nigel Erskine ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Museum of Underwater Archaeology]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/24/2017]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Nigel Erskine ]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reinterpretation of Stone Fish Weirs mentioned to Freycinet in 1819 on Guam]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 1819 the French Corvette Lâ€™ Uranie anchored off Apra Harbor on Guam where its captain Louis Claude de Freycinet was told of the former presence of stone fish weirs, no longer in use. Archaeological surveys of Apra Harbor tidal flats identified several low-walled coral enclosures at the mouth of two freshwater estuaries. Controlled excavation of small sites adjacent to one of these complexes yielded late Latte Period pottery and wood charcoal radiocarbon dated with a Bayesian calibration to A.D. 1645-1725. Besides Chamorro fishermen using the weirs to feed local populations, it is plausible they were expanded to feed visiting sailors during the seasonal arrival of the Manila Galleons. More challenging to former notions of Colonial domination is archaeological evidence documenting the continuity of communal aquaculture practices well after sustained Contact. The apparent resistance of Chamorro fishermen to La Reduccion circa 1700 is provocative, especially after the introduction of Eurocentric food ways and enforced settlement patterns.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Boyd Dixon]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Museum of Underwater Archaeology]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/24/2017]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Boyd Dixon]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>SS Yongala</em>]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historic photo of <em>SS Yongala.</em>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16209088"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Wikipedia]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1911]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seven <em>CSS Georgia</em> Lesson Plans]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Kim McGee]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Cindy Howard]]></dcterms:creator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1787">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two <em>CSS Georgia</em> Lesson Plans]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Students will use the local environment of the Savannah River and itâ€™s deepening to learn about density, buoyancy, Archimedes Principle, sonar, dissolved oxygen and respiration.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Hoffman]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Where&#039;s the Wreck?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia </em>Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Ardell Crawford]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ironclad <em>CSS Georgia</em> and Simple Machines]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Students will learn about the history of the <em>CSS Georgia</em> and use knowledge about simple machines to engineer a weapon launcher.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Barefield]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dcterms:creator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1784">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Through the Worm Hole]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia </em>Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Lorelei Howard]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia </em>Unit Lesson Plans]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Three STEM based lesson plans for <em>CSS Georgia</em> curriculum.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Lash]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia </em>8th Grade STEM Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this lesson plan students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the <em>CSS Georgia</em> by creating three products that are either visual, kinesthetic, and or auditory from the choice board menu provided.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Theresa Luciano]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> STEM Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<em>Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;</em>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> STEM Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Zyon Smiley]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> Choice Board]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia  Smith]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> Choice Board for Gifted and Talented Students]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute&nbsp;]]></dcterms:subject>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1778">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesson Plans from the STEM to Stern:<em> CSS Georgia</em> Shipwreck Teachers Institute]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn  Whitney]]></dcterms:creator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1777">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em> Rack Cards]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<em>CSS Georgia</em>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Educational rack cards front and back.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1776">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teredo Worm Lesson Plan.pdf]]></dcterms:title>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1775">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[North Made New Lesson Plan.pdf]]></dcterms:title>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.themua.org/collections/items/show/1774">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Multibeam Sonar Lesson Plan.pdf]]></dcterms:title>
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