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2011_The Development of Maritime Archaeology

A. Catsambis, B. Ford, And D. Hamilton, eds.,The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, 2011

THE importance of maritime cultures to the history of humankind is clear. Only by watercraft have some areas of our planet, from Australia to the smaller islands of the Earth's seas and oceans, been discovered, explored, settled, exploited, supplied, and defended. The myriad uses of watercraft include fishing and whaling, the transport of goods and people, warfare, exploration, and recreation. Watercraft require crews, usually drawn from the people living near the coasts. Additionally, watercraft require "homes;' from simple sloping shores on which they may be beached to large and complex ports and harbors, the latter requiring specialized workers both for construction and later for utilization. These workers, in turn, as well as sailors, porters, merchants, and their families, require an infrastructure of support that includes at least temporary or permanent living quarters, suppliers of food and other essentials, land transport, maintenance installations including shipyards and chandleries, and financial, storage, and entertainment facilities.

A History of Maritime Archaeological Thought

Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology, 2023

This chapter reviews maritime archaeological theory and changing paradigms from the first shipwreck excavation in the 11th century AD through the advent of modern maritime archaeology in 1960 and contemporary theory today. The chapter is published in Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology (2023), which is available to read for free on the Sidestone website: https://www.sidestone.com/books/contemporary-philosophy-for-maritime-archaeology

2011_The Development of Maritime Archaeology_OHMA

Alexis Catsambis, Ben Ford, and Donny L Hamilton, eds., Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, 2012

Preface: Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology

2011

Inquisitiveness is at the core of human nature. The same can be said for persistence in the face of overcoming boundaries, whether perceived or real. The sea is perhaps the greatest boundary that humankind has looked upon through most of history. This timeless relationship between humanity and the "wine-dark sea" is, therefore, inseparably linked with what it is to be human. It is the lasting physical traces of this effort to overcome the wet element that maritime archaeology attempts to illuminate. With this volume we hope to show the current state of this field, entering its sixth decade, now on firm footing and spreading its sails in all directions.

The many facets of maritime archaeology

Delivering the Deep. Maritime Archaeology for the 21st century: selected papers from IKUWA 7, 2024

In this chapter we contextualize the genesis of the book and offer an overview of how maritime archaeology has evolved over the decades.

The Development of Maritime Archaeology

This article highlights the development of maritime archaeology as a discipline. It is by watercraft that some areas and smaller islands of our planet, seas and oceans, have been discovered, explored, settled, exploited, supplied, and defended. Maritime archaeology has several branches including coastal archaeology, nautical archaeology, which is the largest and best-known of the subdisciplines of maritime archaeology. In the 1970s, maritime and nautical archaeology became academic disciplines. Maritime archaeology is today, a respected subject. Even in the field of nautical archaeology, there are various specializations. This article talks about the problem of lack of availability of thorough, scholarly publications of fieldwork. One of maritime archaeology's greatest challenges lies in educating the public about the purposes of archaeology. Both cultural resources or heritage management archaeologists and those from academic institutions often face time constraints in collecting and publishing as much information as possible on sites that might otherwise be lost forever.

The Archaeological Potentials of Ships

The Conference Book of the General Union of Arab Archeologists

‫العربي‬ ‫الوطن‬ ‫آثار‬ ‫في‬ ‫دراسات‬ 9-35-and the quality of knowledge they produce on life and activities of people who made and sailed them. The ships as an artefact There are two possible approaches to the study of boats and ships as material culture. They could be studied as objects in their own right, looking into their distinctive technical and functional attributes and materialistic features. Also, they could be viewed as cultural carriers, reflecting the environment, knowledge, material, traditions, organisation and beliefs of their parent societies 3. On the other hand, ships and boats have many characteristics, which distinguish them from most other types of artefacts and archaeological source material. Besides being complex, multifunctional, moving artefacts, what distinguishes them the most is the fact that they are an ideal representative of cooperation and teamwork in many of their characteristics. Building and using boats might have started in its earlier stages as an individual operation, performed by a single person, but soon after, as ships became bigger and more complex, more people were involved in all phases of the ship 's working life, from construction to operation (figs.1, 2). Therefore, shipbuilding and sailing are considered social practices, which require cooperation and coordination between a number of men with different skills and capabilities. Accordingly, a ship is an ideal representation of cooperative social action, which utilising the most advanced and developed skills and knowledge of any society. 3 Hasslöf, O. 1972. Main principles in the Technology of ShipBuilding. In O. Hasslöf et al (eds.) Ships and Shipyards-Sailors and Fishermen, Copenhagen. pp. 27-72. Murphy, L. op. cit. Watson, P. 1983. Method and Theory in Shipwreck Archaeology. In R. Gould (ed.

Nautical Archaeology: Theory and Method

Archaeology as a field has developed over the years, with it receiving a considerable technological boost in the 20 th -21 st Century. The timeframe for this boost has considerably shortened in the last decade, with scientific advancements running in tandem with the budding archaeological field, particularly techniques and interpretive aids. Archaeology has also developed several offshoots, back from the period when Alfred Kidder first employed a team of specialists for systematic excavation-now, archaeology can definitely be considered an interdisciplinary, if not multi-disciplinary social science (for the lack of a single unifying interpretive model and the lack of scientific empiricist, experimental degree in methodology). Archaeology includes the involvement of Botanists, Paleo-botanists, Zoologists, Ethnographers, Geneticists, Anthropologists and a plethora of other experts to widen its scope and accuracy during every step of the process. In lieu, this also involves liberal help and undertakings of various fields involved, including sociological studies, post-modern streams of thought and many others, to name a few. This introduction is aimed to impress upon the reader the versatile field that archaeology has become, and we now arrive at the focus of the paper-Nautical Archaeology. Nautical Archaeology has also tremendously benefitted from the ever increasing scholarly and technological advancement, and this paper aims to educate the reader about the ever increasing scope of this field, beginning with the bare essentials, like definitions et al. Section I of the paper will cover the Definition and development of the field in tandem with other scientific advancements and finds. Section II will explore the techniques and grant conceptual depth to Underwater Excavation, with examples. Section III will crystallize the concepts explored in the previous sections, and highlight the importance of Nautical Archaeology as a field.

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