Archaeology of Shipwrecks (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The archaeology of shipwrecks is the field of archaeology specialised in the study and exploration of shipwrecks. Its techniques combine those of archaeology with those of diving. It is necessary to understand the processes by which a wreck site is formed to take into account the distortions in the archaeological material caused by the filtering and scrambling of material remains that occurs during and after the wrecking process.