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Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage
No full textThe RMS Titanic’s Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the north Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a salvage operation after a private company was granted permission to recover the artefact from the wreck’s interior.This recovery for profit is directly at odds with the ethics of modern archaeological practice. It also raises questions about legal protection for shipwrecks such as the Titanic and how we choose to value our shared cultural heritage
Seafaring as social action
No full textThis paper builds upon traditional investigations of maritime activities, particularly seafaring itself, to study the social relationships between people and the sea as well as the technology, necessary knowledge and skills that are implicated. The research is based upon evidence of seafaring drawn from the circulation of obsidian from the island of Lipari around the central Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic c.6500–3500 BC. It focuses upon journeys across the Adriatic, identifying the importance of travel in the creation of social alliance and identity, shedding light upon relationships and practices that are generally invisible without proper consideration of maritime activity. The implications of ongoing maritime activity in the region reflect upon Neolithic activities and temporalities which are outside the sphere of settlement specific landscapes, hitherto the sole focus of the majority of Italian Neolithic researc
Analisi dell’industria litica proveniente dai siti di Umbro e Penitenzeria, Bova Marina, Calabria
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The Neolithic lithic assemblage Bova Marina Archaeological Project Survey and Excavations Preliminary Report: 2001 Season
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The tombolo of Akrotiri and the harbour of Dreamer’s Bay, Cyprus: Geomorphological and Underwater Archaeology Report
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