Table of Contents:
  • Looking below the surface: shipwreck archaeology as anthropology / Richard A. Gould
  • Method and theory in shipwreck archaeology / Patty Jo Watson
  • Rethinking shipwreck archaeology: a history of ideas and considerations for new directions / Daniel J. Lenihan
  • Shipwrecks as data base for human behavioral studies / Larry Murphy
  • A plea for historical particularism in nautical archaeology / George F. Bass
  • The archaeology of war: wrecks of the Spanish Armada of 1588 and the Battle of Britain, 1940 / Richard A. Gould
  • History, smugglers, change and shipwrecks / Peter R. Schmidt and Stephen A. Mrozowski
  • Land and water, urban life, and boats: underwater reconnaissance in Chesapeake Bay / Mark P. Leone
  • Answering our questions with experiments / Cheryl Claassen
  • A trial classificatory model for the analysis of shipwrecks / Wilburn A. Cockrell
  • The mystery of the prehistoric "Chinese anchors": toward research designs for underwater archaeology / E. Gary Stickel.