Article ID: CBB001320476

Troubled Waters for Ancient Shipwrecks (2013)

unapi

Finding shipwrecks has never been easier, and a spectrum of archaeologists, explorers, salvage operators, and treasure hunters all are setting out to do so. Local divers scavenge wrecks for coins and ingots, while companies equipped with remote-sensing technology recover artifacts for sale to collectors and museums. Specialized antiquity dealers do a brisk trade in shipwreck artifacts such as coins and Chinese porcelain. For years, the law of the sea was essentially finders keepers, and salvors who located shipwrecks and brought up their cargo were entitled to a reward at the least. But in recent years, archaeologists have argued that this maritime right of salvage should not be applied to ancient, archaeologically valuable ships, as new techniques for excavating and analyzing underwater wrecks are yielding just a small part of the potential scientific bounty.

...More

Description On the lack of regulation of shipwreck discovery, salvaging, and scavaging.


Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001320476/

Similar Citations

Book Marco G. Meniketti; (2020)
Timber, sail, and rail: An archaeology of industry, immigration, and the Loma Prieta Mill (/isis/citation/CBB229247897/)

Article Biddle, Justin B.; (2014)
Can Patents Prohibit Research? On the Social Epistemology of Patenting and Licensing in Science (/isis/citation/CBB001320767/)

Article Christine Y. L. Luk; (2016)
Biotech in Hong Kong: How Biologist-Entrepreneurs Pursued “Hong Kong's Bioscience Dream” (/isis/citation/CBB136935289/)

Article Christoff, Peter; (2013)
Climate Discourse Complexes, National Climate Regimes and Australian Climate Policy (/isis/citation/CBB001320850/)

Article Shrum, Wesley; (2014)
What Caused the Flood? Controversy and Closure in the Hurricane Katrina Disaster (/isis/citation/CBB001421165/)

Article Hochadel, Oliver; (2013)
The Multiple Eudald Carbonell: The Various Roles of Catalonia's Most Popular Archaeologist (/isis/citation/CBB001213578/)

Book Kocabas, Ufuk; (2008)
The Old Ships of the New Gate (/isis/citation/CBB000932349/)

Chapter Franco Dell'Aquila; Francesco Foschino; Raffaele Paolicelli; (2020)
Nuove acquisizioni sull'approvvigionamento idrico nel Materano in epoca medievale (/isis/citation/CBB511377463/)

Article Michelle J. Richards; Jasmin Günther; (2019)
The Past, Present and Future Values of the Polynesian Stone Adzes and Pounders Collected on the Pandora (/isis/citation/CBB346033461/)

Book Ramage, Andrew; Craddock, Paul; (2000)
King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining (/isis/citation/CBB000111315/)

Book Schlanger, Nathan; Nordbladh, Jarl; (2008)
Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of Its History (/isis/citation/CBB000952017/)

Book Romer, John; Romer, Elizabeth; (2001)
History of Archaeology: Great Excavations of the World (/isis/citation/CBB000102080/)

Article Lindsay, Ian; Leon, Jeffrey; Smith, Adam T.; Wiktorowicz, Conner; (2014)
Geophysical Survey at Late Bronze Age Fortresses: Comparing Methods in the Diverse Geological Contexts of Armenia (/isis/citation/CBB001422011/)

Article Rapp, George; (2014)
Johan Gunnar Andersson: Archaeological Geologist and Pioneer (/isis/citation/CBB001214312/)

Authors & Contributors
Dell'Aquila, Franco
McDonald, Jo
Foschino, Francesco
Richards, Michelle J.
Paolicelli, Raffaele
Marco G. Meniketti
Concepts
Archaeology
Excavations (archaeology)
Science and politics
Science and technology, relationships
Public policy
Ethnography
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Medieval
20th century, early
Bronze age
Ancient
Places
Australia
United States
Middle and Near East
Polynesia
Istanbul (Turkey)
Hong Kong
Institutions
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment