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Underwater archaeology, also known the world over as nautical, marine, or maritime archaeology, is the study of the material remains of people, much like normal archaeology. The one main difference, which creates a whole new area of anthropological study, is that the excavations take place almost exclusively under the water, focusing on the interactions between people and the water.
Caribbean marine archaeology is, by far, one of the most important areas of this new area of study. During the first thirty years of European exploration of the New World, over one hundred ships were lost in the areas around what is now sometimes called the West Indies. Because those areas became well-traveled paths of important European trade routes, many wrecks occurred around todays Florida Keys and Bahamas, including the wreck of the San Pedro, off the Florida Key of Isla Morada.
Such wrecks are often referred to as a non-renewable resource by many archaeologists. Spanish galleons full of gold and treasure, as the legends go, will never again cross the Atlantic only to perish on the CaribbeanÕs beautiful and yet undeniably deadly coral reefs. Because of this, Florida has begun to develop a series of underwater parks in order to preserve the shipwrecks as much as possible.
OUTLINE
I. Introduction
A) What is marine archaeology?
B) Why study it?
C) Techniques of excavation
II. Shipwrecks and their stories
III. The future of underwater archaeology
A) National Parks
B) Interested Groups
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bass, George Fletcher. Archaeology Underwater. London: Thames & Hudson, 1966.
ÒDiving Into the Past: Theories, Techniques and Applications of Underwater ArchaeologyÓ. Conference on Underwater Archaeology. eds. June Drenning Holmquist and Ardis Hillman Wheeler. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1964.
Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology. James Delgado, ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Lehihan, Daniel. Submerged. New York: The Newmarket Press, 2002;
Marx, Robert. Shipwrecks of the Western Hemisphere. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1971.
Pearson, Colin. Conservation of the Underwater Heritage. Stoneham, MA: Butterworths, 1987.
For Further Info on this Topic, Check out this WWW Site: http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/bar/uap/.
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