Archaeology · Maritime & Industrial Archaeology
A topic within Maritime & Industrial Archaeology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
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Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
UNESCO · 2001
Sets in-situ preservation as the first option for underwater sites and extends the same protection principles used on land to shipwrecks and…
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Manual for Activities Directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage
Thijs Maarleveld, Ulrike Guérin & Barbara Egger · 2013
Sets in-situ preservation as the preferred default for shipwrecks and submerged sites, and requires any intervention on them to meet professional…
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Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology: Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene
Sara A. Rich & Peter B. Campbell · 2023
Argues that maritime archaeology has stayed theoretically isolated from the rest of the discipline, and brings it into dialogue with recent…
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UNESCO
Sets in-situ preservation as the first option for underwater sites and extends the same protection principles used on land to shipwrecks and submerged landscapes in international waters.
Thijs Maarleveld, Ulrike Guérin & Barbara Egger
Sets in-situ preservation as the preferred default for shipwrecks and submerged sites, and requires any intervention on them to meet professional archaeological standards rather than treat wrecks as salvage.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sara A. Rich & Peter B. Campbell
Argues that maritime archaeology has stayed theoretically isolated from the rest of the discipline, and brings it into dialogue with recent philosophy of the ocean and the Anthropocene to rethink what counts as a site or an object underwater.