A Look at Maritime Archaeology

Introduction

Marine Archaeology is a very loose term that describes a set of methods developed for archaeological and ethnographic studies in the aquatic environment. These studies might include:

• Search of historical records.
• Structural investigation, including survey, excavation and analysis of physical remains.
• Site interpretation, both what the site tells us, and how to tell the general public about it.
• Site formation studies.
• Site management.

Specialist skills have been developed to work with the marine environment. Marine archaeology is important because this environment often preserves sites in great detail. To quantify how sites change over time (site formation) and to manage marine sites we must understand this environment:

Next slide: Site formation - the impact of the environment

Index

• Site formation - the impact of the environment
• Developing new techniques
• Cellardyke VRML
• Techniques in action
• Biology and the Thesis
• Biological distributions
• Biology and preservation
• Conclusions and scope
• Acknowledgements

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