Landscape Beneath the Waves: The Archaeological Investigation of Underwater Landscapes, Carolin
Landscape Beneath the Waves: The Archaeological Investigation of Underwater Landscapes, Caroline Wickham-Jones, 2018This is a really nice review of the methods, scope and major discoveries of underwater archaeology across the world. It is entirely about the archaeology of places which used to be above water - this isn’t shipwrecks, but places like Dunwich or Doggerland. It can be a little dry, but kept my interest for all of it except some parts on the legal background (which is probably more me than the book tbf). I think one of the best points made is that underwater and onshore archaeology need to be integrated - to understand a landscape they have to be understood together, not as separate sites. Unfortunately, the tidal area is one of the most difficult places to deal with archaeologically - but that doesn’t invalidate the need to integrate. -- source link
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