Fishing and shipwreck heritage : marine archaeology's greatest threat? /

For 250 years, encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets, everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world's continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bul...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kingsley, Sean A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Series:	Debates in archaeology.
Subjects:	Underwater archaeology. Shipwrecks. Dredging (Fisheries) Cultural property > Protection. Historic preservation. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.