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Roderick – Chapter<span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span>Chair<span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span>April 12, 2022<span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span>capecod@massarchaeology.org </span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">with<span> </span></span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">Dr. Calvin Mires</span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(38, 38, 38)">BREWSTER, MA —The Massachusetts Archaeological Society <span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Cape Cod Chapter</span><span> </span>presents<span> </span></span><b><i><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(38, 38, 38)">From
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dendrochronology and eDNA are helping maritime archaeologists understand or find </span></span></i></b>material and human remains</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:normal;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:center"> </span></span></i></b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(38, 38, 38)">with
Dr. Calvin Mires<span> </span><b>Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 7:00 pm</b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(38, 38, 38)"><span> </span><span style="margin:0px">at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History 869 Main Street/Route
6A Brewster.</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(35, 35, 35)"><span> </span>This program will also be available virtually to MAS Cape Cod Chapter Members.<br>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">Please join Dr. Calvin Mires as he discusses two of his current research projects in maritime archaeology -- both very different in age and
methods, but each reinforcing the crucial role of interdisciplinary collaboration between humanities and the sciences to uncover or find the secrets of the past. The first are recent findings from dendrochronology project on the 1626 shipwreck, <i>Sparrow-Hawk. </i>The
second discusses an innovative study of the potential of eDNA (environmental-DNA) in locating human remains on WWII submerged sites for the Department of Defense POW/MIAA Accounting Agency.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">Calvin Mires, Ph.D., is a maritime archaeologist and Research Associate III at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with over 20 years of experience
leading projects around the world and running training programs in Massachusetts through DiveArc, Seafaring Education and Heritage Maritime Program (SEAMAHP), Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) and the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources
(MBUAR). He has received grants from the National Park Service Maritime Heritage Program and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has published in journals such as <i>The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">$5 per person or FREE to MAS Cape Cod Chapter Members<br>
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