Oxbow Books, 2013. — 323 p. In the last fifty years, the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnectiong locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human...
Springer, 1998. — 534 p. This volume initiates a new series of books on maritime or underwater archaeology, and as the editor of the series I welcome its appearance with great excitement. It is appropriate that the first book of the series is a collection of articles intended for gradu ate or undergraduate courses in underwater archaeology, since the growth in academic...
Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books, 2011. — 338 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84217-418-0. This volume is concerned with those parts of the prehistoric archaeological record that now lie under water. Most of the sites and finds described were inundated as a result of the global sea-level rise of some 120 m that occurred during the Final Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Throughout this...
Published for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum by Texas A&M University Press, 2014. — 234 p. After two decades of searching for La Salle’s lost ship La Belle , Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty bottom of Matagorda Bay, off the coast of Texas. The first cannon lifted from...
Springer, 2011. — 363 p. Maritime cultural landscapes are collections of submerged archaeological sites, or combinations of terrestrial and submerged sites that reflect the relationship between humans and the water. These landscapes can range in size from a single beach to an entire coastline and can include areas of terrestrial sites now inundated as well as underwater sites...
Elsevier, 2004. — 491 p. Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field. With new information about the use of computers and Global Positioning Systems, the second edition of this handbook shows how to extract as much information as possible from a site, how to record and document the data, and how to act...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 288 p. In this first volume to comprehensively catalogue the many physical and cultural processes affecting the development of shipwreck sites, Matthew Keith brings together experts in diverse fields such as geology, soil and wood chemistry, micro- and marine biology, and sediment dynamics. The case studies examine the natural and...
New York: Vintage Books, 1998. — 536 p. — ISBN: 0-375-70337-3. In one of the most exciting adventure stories of our time, Gary Kinder combines maritime disaster with visionary underwater technology. In September 1857, the SS Central America , a sidewheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina...
New York: Grove Press, 1998. — 544 p. — eBook ISBN: 978-1-5558-4796-8 Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder’s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred...
Springer, 2015. — 173 p. Battlefields have been the object of fascination for millions of tourists and the subjects of elaborate interpretation projects. This volume will outline the process and results of developing the WWII Maritime Heritage Trail: Battle of Saipan Project. This book will provide examples of how a group of archaeologists, managers and a community took a...
Gdańsk: National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk, 2014. — 442 p. — (Archaeological Research of the National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk. Vol. 2). — ISBN 978-83-64150-05-0. "The Copper Ship" is a bilingual (English – Polish) joint publication edited by Waldemar Ossowski, Ph.D., which presents comprehensive results of the archaeological studies conducted on the shipwreck of a medieval...
AltaMira Press, 2009. — 291 p. San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times — not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime Archaeology, the authors use the island as a platform to explore evidence of early...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2002. — 881 p. — (The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-4613-5120-7. Although underwater archaeology has assumed its rightful place as an important subdiscipline in the field, the published literature has not kept pace with the rapid increase in the number of both prehistoric and historic underwater sites. The editors...
Chilton Books, 1963. — 178 p. "In an earlier book ( Lost Cities and Vanished Civilization s, Chilton, 1962), I told of some of the earlier triumphs of archaeology: the recapture from time's grasp of cities like Pompeii, Babylon, Chichen Itza, Knossos, Troy, and Angkor. From its beginning only two hundred years ago, at the volcano-buried city of Pompeii, archaeology has grown...
Houston: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. — 193 p. Deepwater archaeology uncovers secrets from the ancient maritime past...Thousands of shipwrecks and archaeological sites lie undiscovered in deep water, potentially holding important clues to our maritime past. Scientists have explored only a small percentage of the oceans' depths, as 98 percent of the seabed lies well beyond...
Springer, 2006. — 231 p. Maritime archaeology and underwater cultural heritage management have become well established over the past twenty years or so in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in Australia. During that period Australian researchers and underwater cultural heritage managers have conducted a significant number of important maritime archaeological investigations...
Springer, 2016. — 282 p. This book presents the proceedings of the international academic workshop on “Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective” held from June 21-23, 2013 at Harvard University campus and organized by Harvard-Yenching Institute. It includes high-quality papers focusing on the historical shipwrecks investigated by...
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