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An example of maritime archaeology in the Pacific Ocean is the discovery of the wreck of Two Brothers, discovered in 2008 by a team of marine archaeologists working on an expedition for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
An example is the works of the Department of Maritime Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum. [ 50 ] The public interest market is covered by a number of diving, shipwreck and underwater archaeology books, beginning with the works of Jacques Cousteau .
Maritime archaeology is a sub-discipline of archaeology concerned with the study of human cultures broadly relating to or found in the sea — in practice the subject encompasses in addition inland water, foreshore and coastal sites, as well as associated material culture, such as boats, fishing and trade items, on land.
The wreckage of a ship discovered off the coast of Kenya may have been from legendary explorer Vasco da Gama’s final voyage across the Indian Ocean, archaeologists say in a new study ...
Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Ulster, Coleraine; Shipwrecks UK: information on wrecks in the seas surrounding Britain and Ireland; The Sextant, Online community of Underwater Archaeology and Maritime History; Sea Research Society Ethics in Underwater Archaeology and Socialism versus Capitalism in Underwater Archaeology by E ...
The archaeology of shipwrecks is the area of Maritime archaeology that has received the most attention, in fact it was early studies of shipwrecks that provided the foundation of the subject.
Maritime archaeology in East Africa spans the range from the horn of Somalia south to Mozambique, and includes the various islands and island chains dotting the map off the coast of Somalia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya. Primary areas along this coast include the Zanzibar (including the Mafia islands), Lamu, and Kilwa Archipelagos.
In the summer of 1972 a team of maritime archaeologists of the Archaeological Institute, run jointly in Aix-en-Provence (France) by the University of Provence and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research or CNRS) [1] began what was planned as three years of work on the recently discovered Roman wreck at Madrague de Giens.